The exhibition tour focusing on Sarkis’ solo exhibition titled ENDLESS will be held free of charge at Arter on Thursday, January 25 at 19:00 accompanied by Neslihan Koyuncu.
The tour led by Neslihan Koyuncu will focus on Sarkis’ solo exhibition ENDLESS currently on view at Arter and the various temporalities indicated within the exhibition. The exhibition tour will explore the lives of Sarkis’ works, as well as the elements that comprise them, from a semantic perspective, along with their potential subjectivities and memory-triggering layers. The tour will also provide participants with the opportunity to share their questions and personal impressions.
Conceived to coexist with a space, to embrace spatial references and associations, or to forge a different space altogether, the works of Sarkis are reinterpreted and transformed by the artist on every occasion they are exhibited. The exhibition ENDLESS, presented on Arter’s 2nd floor, brings together a selection of the artist’s works from the Arter Collection in the same gallery space for the very first time, endowing them with new life and new experiences. In the exhibition, Sarkis restages works charged with memories of different pasts and places – such as Icons of Istanbul (1986–2023), Elle Danse (1990), Transflammation (1996–2001), Mixed Retrospective (2001), Calling (To the Bees) I (2013), as well as the mirrors and neon lights from Respiro which were donated to the Arter Collection in 2021 – and reinterprets each of them within a larger body they construct together in their current setting. ENDLESS also features two new pieces welcoming visitors as they enter the space. The exhibition brings together Sarkis’ works produced in different mediums and times in order to stimulate new relationships among them and expand their distinctive memories on a new journey he sets up in the gallery space.
The event will be held in Turkish.
Participation is free of charge and requires registration. Please send an e-mail to turlar@arter.org.tr to register for the event.
Capacity: 25 participants
Approximate run time: 1 hour*
* The event will be recorded. Event durations may vary according to participants’ interactions.
Neslihan Koyuncu is an artist focusing on the mediums of photography and installation. She worked as a project coordinator at the 23,5 Hrant Dink Memory Space as part of the Hrant Dink Foundation between 2018-2022, leading the coordination of The Dumpling Post, a print and digital publication produced as part of the 17th Istanbul Biennial. Koyuncu currently writes on arts and culture at Agos and various publications.
