November 2021–March 2022
The Sequential: A Selection of Videos from Turkey
November 19–20, 2021
Sabatini Auditorium, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Organized by SALT as part of the institution’s 10th-year programs, The Sequential will take place as a two-day screening in Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid) with the participation of the artists Fatma Belkıs and Onur Gökmen and an introduction by the director of SALT Research and Programs, Meriç Öner. Presenting video works by six artists from Turkey, the traveling program includes commissions as part of the ongoing exhibition series at SALT Galata.
In collaboration with Reina Sofía, SALT has selected one work from each exhibition within the program scrutinizing—the politics of excavation through a re-reading of the colonial discourse in Sandstorm and the Oblivion (2017) by Barış Doğrusöz, conceptual play on the use of language in Kartpostal [Postcard] (2017–2020) by Deniz Gül, a critical approach to everyday violence in Volkan Aslan’s Best Wishes (2019), the struggles of modernization, reflected upon in Fatma Belkıs and Onur Gökmen’s dark comedy Alakadar [The Connected] (2021), and identity politics brought into the open in Aykan Safoğlu’s Hundsstern steigt ab [Dog Star Descending] (2020). Bringing these works together, the screening aims to deal with issues of symbolic power through the conceptual vocabulary emerging in the artists’ practice.
Following the screening program on November 19–20, 2021, at Museo Reina Sofía, The Sequential will be included in the 2022 public programs of two other member institutions of L’Internationale—Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie (Warsaw) and M HKA, The Museum of Contemporary Art (Antwerp).
The Sequential is programmed by Amira Akbıyıkoğlu and Farah Aksoy from SALT. Further information about the past and current exhibitions, as well as the parallel programs, are available at saltonline.org. The program is supported by SAHA.
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L’Internationale is a confederation of seven modern and contemporary art institutions. L’Internationale proposes a space for art within a non-hierarchical and decentralised internationalism, based on the values of difference and horizontal exchange among a constellation of cultural agents, locally rooted and globally connected. L’Internationale brings together seven major European art institutions: Moderna galerija (MG+MSUM, Ljubljana, Slovenia); Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid, Spain); MACBA, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (Spain); Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium); Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie (Warsaw, Poland), SALT (Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey) and Van Abbemuseum (VAM, Eindhoven, the Netherlands).
İpek Duben: The Skin, Body and I
December 2, 2021–March 27, 2022
SALT Beyoğlu
SALT will organize the most comprehensive exhibition of İpek Duben between December 2, 2021–March 27, 2022 at SALT Beyoğlu. Referring to the artist’s extensive use of her body image, The Skin, Body and I offers insight into Duben’s practice exploring gender, male violence, displacement, migration, and excess consumption. The exhibition reflects her tenacious approach to such critical themes with the recurrent use of forms and materials. The Skin, Body and I reevaluates Duben’s body of work from drawings and paintings made in the early 1980s to her most recent installation Melekler ve Soytarılar [Angels and Clowns] in 2020.
Duben abandoned a doctorate study in political science at the University of Chicago in the early 1970s to concentrate on artistic practice. Since then, she has also made significant contributions to art in Turkey with her essays, books that have become standard reference books, and to institutions such as Resim Heykel Müzeleri [Painting and Sculpture Museums] and International Plastic Artists Association.
