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Installation, as part of Transfer/Devir residency, Galeri5
2019
Publication.
“... From Merve Ünsal to Ayşe İdil İdil
I know that you think about creating space, listening to each other, and listening. Aside from the journal you keep, the seat you leave in the space works in two ways: Spending time there, the importance and place of time and stopping as part of production. The second is to suggest a certain body choreography for those who will come after you. While thinking about production areas, how did the transfer process at Gallery 5 transform your practice through the definitions of home-art production-field-space?
... I was in Gallery 5 again thinking, “What am I going to do here, what am I going to do from here on out and in life?” While thinking with these questions, and I realized that I always pull up the two chairs in the space to infront of the window and sit looking out whenever I go to the venue. I think that both the one in the gallery and the one at home are trying to feel “as if” without really knowing what they are referencing. This does not come from a negative place, it comes from an instinctive place, my emotions are trying to create specific conditions for my brain. I wanted to transform the productive space-time I felt in that chair into a portal between the home and the gallery. I became aware of these invisible portals in other places of my life (between people, routines, spaces, memories) through this process. ...”
- from Devir Teslim, ArtUnlimited, 2020.