In the workshop that originates from the multi-layered conceptual framework of PƎRⱯ Reverse, participants first tour the exhibition. Then, while thinking about memory, they apply the materials, objects, and negatives they created about the city on different surfaces. In the workshop conducted by Elçin Acun and Mert Çağıl Türkay, the cyanotype printing technique (also called blueprint) is used.
Note: A file containing preliminary information about the cyanotype printing technique and the objects they may choose to bring with them will be sent to the participants via email.
Instructor: Elçin Acun, Mert Çağıl Türkay
Capacity: 10 people
Duration: 180 minutes
Fee per workshop: 300 TL
The event will take place at the Pera Museum (face-to-face). For more information: ogrenme@peramuzesi.org.tr
About Elçin Acun
Born in Izmir in 1982, Elçin Acun is an artist and academician who produces lens-based conceptual works. Acun, who completed her master's degree at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Photography Department, continues and works at the same department for Proficiency in Art. The works of the artist, who makes performative emphases on her own body, are shaped around ideas of body, gender, public and private space, visibility, woman and queer, which also include the questioning of being socially in her own life dynamic. She has held various solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad. Living in Istanbul, Acun is one of the founding members of KOLI Art Space, an independent queer art initiative, and a member of PLATFORM by GAPO.
About Mert Çağıl Türkay
Born in 1987 in Istanbul, Mert Çağıl Türkay completed his undergraduate, graduate and artistic proficiency education at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Department of Photography. He has participated in many national and international exhibitions and workshops such as "International Print Triennial / Interfaces", "Realm- Eyes On / Monat der fotografie Wien", "Mamut Art Project", "TÜYAP Art Fair", "Aspects of Balkan Photography". He produces photography, alternative photo printing techniques, installation and video projects. He uses alternative photographic printing techniques to convey contemporary and avant-garde images that emerge emotionally and symbolically through the manipulation of tonality, texture, materials and details. In his works, the emphasis on queer theory and gender, the body-power relationship and the use of the body for protest are mostly seen.
When regarding the paintings of Istanbul by western painters, Golden Horn has a distinctive place and value. This body of water that separates the Topkapı Palace and the Historical Peninsula, in which monumental edifices are located, from Galata, where westerners and foreign embassies dwell, is as though an interpenetrating boundary.
When Karl XII of Sweden was defeated by Tsar Peter the Great of Russia in 1709, he fled to the Ottoman Empire and settled in Bender with his entourage for five years.
The Bosphorus, which divides the city from north to south, separates two continents, renders Istanbul distinct for western painters, offers the most picturesque spectacles for western artists.
Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 - 19:00
Friday 10:00 - 22:00
Sunday 12:00 - 18:00
The museum is closed on Mondays.
On Wednesdays, the students can
visit the museum free of admission.
Full ticket: 300 TL
Discounted: 150 TL
Groups: 200 TL (minimum 10 people)
