Borusan Contemporary, a modern art museum in Istanbul, is hosting two exhibitions - "Fluid Bodies" and "Üvercinka" - that will run until Feb. 17.
"Fluid Bodies," a collective consisting of artists, designers, animators, musicians and software developers, studies human form with a focus on the characteristics and behaviors of the individuals. The exhibition will be curated by leading media arts curator Conrad Bodman.
The early works of the collective (Portrait II, Supreme Believers II and Walking City), which includes collaborators like Radiohead, Apple, Zaha Hadid Architects and Samsung, will be on display at the second floor of Perili Köşk, where Borusan Contemporary is located.
The pieces focus on human body and its capacity to be reshaped, re-transform and conform. "Tribes and Emergence," which can be visited at the same floor, focuses on the nature of individual within a large group.
Doug Aitken, "Don't Think it Twice" in the "Üvercinka" exhibition.
While the first section of the exhibition is busy with the location and the moment experienced, the works exhibited on the fourth floor point out on how to interpret the future. "Smart Matter," the first film of the "Hype Cycle" series, studies human-machine collaboration via performance and new technologies. While "Machine Learning" offers a new world with autonomous machines creating unpredictable forms of movement, "Screens of the Future" consists of foreseeing prototypes more and more integrated with the new technology.
The other exhibition, "Üvercinka" follows legendary Turkish poet Cemal Süreya's lead to reinterpret some of Borusan Contemporary Collection's notable pieces.
A tribute to Cemal Süreya: Üvercinka
Curated by Necmi Sönmez, "Üvercinka" connects literature and contemporary arts by gathering pieces from Borusan Contemporary Art Collection under the same roof.
Paying homage to the famous poet Cemal Süreya, the exhibition borrows its title from Süreya's "Üvercinka," the collection of all his works.
Üvercinka is such a poetic word that it couldn't be translated into another language. It serves as a new point of interpretation for the pieces of collections with striking examples of international arts.
The content of the exhibition, which aims to promote poetic and visual perception, focuses on rethinking and asking new questions like, how are poems and contemporary art positioned among the economic, political and social formations of today's world, how do we render art pieces by looking at poetic and artistic way of expressions, and published in 1958, how does "Üvercinka" still manage to influence us 60 years later. The exhibition seeks answers to such questions by pieces produced with neon, video and photography techniques.
Opened for visitors on Sept. 15, the exhibitions can be viewed only at the weekends until Feb. 17, 2019.