MPP: Esra Ersen
dal 14/11/2001 al 13/1/2002
Segnalato da
14/11/2001
MPP: Esra Ersen
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
"If You Could Speak Swedish" is being shown at the legendary kebab restaurant, Jerusalem's Grill House on Sodermalm in Stockholm, and at Moderna Museet. For many immigrants kebab restaurants are important meeting places and information centres, where they can get information about the city, work, housing, etc. Esra Ersen is interested in how identities are formed and re-formed, and much of her work is anchored in her own Turkish background. She does not shrink from social, political or private elements when investigating how meaning is created and is)understood.
"If You Could Speak Swedish" is being shown at the legendary kebab restaurant,
Jerusalem's Grill House on Sodermalm in Stockholm, and at Moderna Museet. For
many immigrants kebab restaurants are important meeting places and information
centres, where they can get information about the city, work, housing, etc.
They are also places where immigrants may have a chance to speak their native
languages.
Esra Ersen is interested in how identities are formed and re-formed, and much
of her work is anchored in her own Turkish background. She does not shrink
from social, political or private elements when investigating how meaning is
created and (mis)understood. Her work is materialised in many ways, from
photography and videos to installations and dramatised situations. One common
denominator, however, is that she is often influenced by the site or location
of her work. In I am Turkish. I am honest. I am diligent (1998) she worked
together with a group of pupils at a school outside Munster in Germany.
Twenty-four of these pupils wore Turkish school uniforms for a week and during
the time wrote down their experiences of this. Their impressions and
reflections were then printed directly on the uniforms, which were exhibited
in the school for a month. From being a part of a strictly controlled and
consciously politicised context, the uniforms became part of a more neutral
situation in a German school.
Esra Ersen was born in 1970 in Ankara. She lives and works in Istanbul. A
recipient of an IASPIS stipend in September-November 2001, she is also
currently represented in different exhibitions: Turkish Contemporary Art,
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Becoming a Place, Istanbul Museum of Contemporary Art,
Istanbul, Dare to be different organized by Cultural Center Linda Art, Fier,
Albanian
Thanks to students and teachers at InfoKomp, Hudding and Jerusalem-s Grill
House for their cooperation.
Curator: Maria Lind
Within the framework of the seminar series, Connections - an event around
contemporary art, there will be a seminar at Jerusalem's Grill House,
Hornsgatan 92 (Underground station, Zinkensdamm) on Thursday 15th November,
from 18 to 20. Participants include the artist, Esra Ersen, Erden Kosova,
Istanbul, co-editor of two Turkish magazines of contemporary art and Ph D
student at Goldsmith - College, London and Ozan Sunar, Director of Sodra
Teatern in Stockholm.
Bookings: u.eriksson@modernamuseet.se or 08-51 95 52 60. Price: 75 SEK.
Student, senior citizens and MMV 50 SEK. Price incl food and beverages.
The seminar is presented in cooperation with the Royal University College of
Fine Arts and the College University of Art, Craft and Design.
At Moderna Museet and Jerusalem's Grill House, Hornsgatan 92, Underground
Station, Zinkensdamm
Moderna Museet Skeppsholmen SE Stockholm
Opening hours: tuesday - thursday 11 - 20. Friday - sunday 11 - 18
Moderna Museet
Skeppsholmen SE 103 27
Stockholm
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