Do what we learn from our gut feeling and the burden on our shoulders determine where we look, how we look at it and how we see? We reflect on the concepts of reality, part of a whole, the whole itself and existence while interpreting these gut feelings and the burden using a being that we see around us all the time and often do not realize we step on, such as a rock/stone. In the workshop, we will use soap, which has become an everyday staple. We reflect on the physical properties of this material and compare it with the properties of stone. We give soap a new look, a new reality by giving it form, creating texture from it and painting it.
Materials
Classic white skin soap (several pieces)
Utility knife
Acrylic paint or watercolor
Hard materials that can be used to create texture (toothpicks, steel wool, fork, a textured stick, etc.)
A container full of water
A piece of cloth
Related Exhibition: Confrontation
Capacity: 20 participants
Duration: 1.5 hours
Participation fee per workshop: 45 TL
Fee per workshop for students: 25 TL
Participants will receive a certificate of participation by e-mail.
The participants are required to bring their own materials to the workshop.
For events held on the Zoom Meeting application, the online guided exhibition tour will be followed by an exhibition-themed workshop. The link to the workshop will only be shared with ticketed participants.
Your camera and microphone must be turned on in order for the instructor to see the participants and give personalized instructions. Every participant who buys a ticket is considered to have accepted these conditions.
For more information: ogrenme@peramuzesi.org.tr
About Merve Dündar
Merve Dündar completed her Bachelor’s Degree at Boğaziçi University, Department of Economics, and her Master's Degree at Yeditepe University, Department of Plastic Arts, with her thesis titled “Fragments, Borders, Body and Meaning”. Through her work, she questions the relationship of the inner world with the outside, the boundaries and interactions between the individual self and the social self, and the concepts of self and reality. Dündar, who has participated in several group exhibitions as well as opening her solo exhibition titled “Which One is Heavy, Which One is Real" (Galeri Bu, 2019), is currently based in Istanbul.
Inspired by its Anatolian Weights and Measures Collection, Pera Museum presents a contemporary video installation titled For All the Time, for All the Sad Stones at the gallery that hosts the Collection. The installation by the artist Nicola Lorini takes its starting point from recent events, in particular the calculation of the hypothetical mass of the Internet and the weight lost by the model of the kilogram and its consequent redefinition, and traces a non-linear voyage through the Collection.
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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)