Thresholds Between Spaces: What I See From My Window

Pera Adult

  • August 11, 2024 / 14:30

Can seemingly everyday and ordinary things find different meanings through our experience of them? Does the same landscape look different from “everyone's window”? Based on the conceptual structure of the PƎRⱯ Reverse, which re-functionalizes the existing from a different perspective, the workshop invites us to think about and design windows that contain the opposition of “inside” and “outside”. Starting from the image of the window with its metaphorical meanings both as an architectural hardware element and as a threshold between spaces, the participants paint what they see from outside and inside on the window forms they design using cardboard and tracing paper.

Instructor: Damla Yalçın
Capacity: 12 people
Duration: 90 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 Damla Yalçın
Damla Yalçın (1995, Ankara) graduated from Marmara University, Department of Painting. She completed her Master's Program at the Textile Department of the same university with her thesis on sustainability and biotextiles titled “The Place of Biotextiles in Art Practices”. Yalçın, who took part in many group exhibitions in Turkey and abroad (Germany, Poland, Korea, Hong Kong, Moldova, Italy, Cyprus), opened her first solo exhibition titled “Memory of the Unrememberable” at Krank Art Gallery in 2019. She took part in artist residency programs in Moldova and Italy and most recently at Gate27. She continues her life and production in Istanbul.

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