Emergency exit in city
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Hürriyet Daily News
Oluşturulma Tarihi: Aralık 04, 2008 00:00
ISTANBUL - The contemporary art milieu of Istanbul has been given a breath of fresh air with a project by Outlet//Independent Art Space. Outlet, an attempt to bring art, often regarded as a luxury commodity, to the masses at a time and place where social and cultural inequity is deeply entrenched, has opened an emergency exit-door to the city.
Outlet’s second exhibition, "Emergency Exit," brings the works of six artists together, who focus on domestic situations within different generations and cities, and introduce them to an audience in the Outlet Project Room.
The artists, rather than reproducing conservatism, prefer to ignore socially constructed judgments. Women who go under the knife and beauty knowledge reproduced and passed down from mother to daughter are issues highlighted by work in the exhibition.
Coming from an ironic perspective, the domestic activities of women are redefined as sport. Suspicion that exists within the political arena is shown as penetrating everyday relations. Self-defense and solitariness is contrasted with the city and also with the external flow of rhythm.
The exhibition will be open until Jan. 17, 2009.
Outlet: Boğazkesen Cad. Kadirler Yokuşu,
No: 69 Tophane - Istanbul Tel: 0212 245 5505
The artists, rather than reproducing conservatism, prefer to ignore socially constructed judgments. Women who go under the knife and beauty knowledge reproduced and passed down from mother to daughter are issues highlighted by work in the exhibition.
Coming from an ironic perspective, the domestic activities of women are redefined as sport. Suspicion that exists within the political arena is shown as penetrating everyday relations. Self-defense and solitariness is contrasted with the city and also with the external flow of rhythm.
The exhibition will be open until Jan. 17, 2009.
Outlet: Boğazkesen Cad. Kadirler Yokuşu,
No: 69 Tophane - Istanbul Tel: 0212 245 5505