Zeren Goktan
dal 13/3/2013 al 26/4/2013
Segnalato da
13/3/2013
Zeren Goktan
CDA Projects, Istanbul
Counter / Sayac. The artist cooperated with male prisoners to rearticulate the craft of beadwork, which is used by prisoners to tell love stories. A tactical media intervention that works on various levels to build alliances between the physical and virtual realms to memorialize deceased women due to domestic violence in Turkey.
Cda-Projects is pleased to announce Zeren Göktan’s solo show, Counter, a tactical media intervention that works on various levels to build alliances between the physical and virtual realms to memorialize deceased women due to domestic violence in Turkey.
Counter consists of beaded shrouds with embedded quick response (QR) codes that act as “gateways” to an online memorial. Zeren Göktan cooperated with male prisoners to rearticulate the craft of beadwork, which is used by prisoners to tell love stories. Ironic lines from popular love songs and QR codes are brought together in the beaded shrouds, which are inspired by Ancient Egyptian versions that protect and lead the dead to afterlife.
The beaded shrouds act as passageways, leading to the virtual counterpart of the work. The audience is invited to scan the QR codes to go to the website of the memorial, where a digital counter indicates the number and names of women deceased in Turkey due to domestic violence. The counter is updated by an NGO (Platform of We Will Stop Murder of Women) after each death. It becomes a living counter-monument that articulates an online archive and memory of the murders.
The seductive beauty of the shrouds and the promise of love radiating from the embedded lyrics lead to a virtual world that records and reveals the violence.
Born in 1975, Zeren Göktan grew up in Ankara. She studied Graphic Design and got her BFA from Bilkent University at 1997, respectively she had her MFA degree from the Arts department at 1999 from Bilkent University. At 2000 she moved to United States and got a second MFA degree from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University, Boston at 2003. She is a PHD candidate at Yildiz Technical University on the practice of art. Zeren is renowned for her installations, video and sound installations, animations and photography. Her first solo exhibition opened in Istanbul in 1997, followed by “In the name of bread for the sake of land”, Kasa Gallery, (1999) “Breadzone”, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, (2003) and “In-flux”, Akbank Art and Culture Center (2008). Her work participated in many group shows in Turkey and abroad such as, “ We Are Volunteers’, 10th International Istanbul Biennial, "Not Only Possible, But Also Necessary: Optimism in the Age of Global War (2007), “Facing the Walls”, Annual Visual Arts Festival at the Former Military Barracks KODRA, Thessaloniki (2008), VIDEO.IT, ‘A bridge over the Mediterranean’, 2009, Biennale Qui Vive, Moscow (2010).
Zeren Göktan lives and works in Istanbul
www.zerengoktan.com
Opening March 14, 2013, 7p.m.
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