“On the way to Bangladesh”

In her Novel “Alice in Wonderland”, Lewis Carol handles the issue “ecology” ironically through Alive-figure, who points out the important issues in life with a child’s naive point of view.

While living in a world of dreams, the unexpected performance on the 11th September demolished the walls between the real and the dream as in the wonderland of Alice. From that moment on, a new era began in which the international liasions are fluidised and the violence are legalised. Asia experiences once again, immigrations of great masses as in Alice’s wonderland, where characters suddenly change place.

This movement of violence will not end up until the conditions fulfil the requirements of the great power.

By organizing this great event Bangladesh, a country surrounded by wars, proves the world that multinational togetherness and cooperation is possible even in this critical geographical point and in this special time.

The artworks of the Turkish exhibits refer to the fantastic story of Alice’s wonderland. Metamorphosis, relocation, new meanings-new formations, travel stories, social positioning and questioning the metropolitan life are the subjects of the art works.

In her “Assemblage with words” Canan Beykal forms an “object” by ordering the letters and syllables of the title in different constellations. This “object” represents the togetherness of different kinds.

In his work “On my way”, T. Melih Görgün expresses the nonsense of violence by “the race of the wipers of a car” where one does not achieve more than the other from their act of violence.

Ferhat Özgür points out by his photographies that the only important thing is the existence itself. Different identities are basically made of the same elements, which are the elements of a human being.

Seyda Cesur forms a digital diary, where the computer witnesses her insight. This is the present situation of an individual in its metropolitan environment: The computer is the only one who cares for her.

Neriman Polat’s photography expresses the “light” and the “darkness” by the strong daylight shining into the silent room.

Ayşegül Izer Drashan’s work questioning the “human being” is dedicated to the journalists murdered by the “human beings” supporting the opinion that violence has no ethic.

Life is a fiction which is governed by strategies and rules. In her video “over here, over there” Gülçin Aksoy comes to the point that violence appears where ethic is fotgotten.

Who is the saviour? Intelligence, knowledge or logic? Or humanity?

T. Melih Görgün


List of the Exhibits

Canan Beykal (b. 1948)
1. Assemblage with words
Digital Print
29.7 x 21 cm
1993

Seyda Cesur (b. 1972)
2. Digital Witness
Video
2001

Aysegul Izer Drashan (b. 1959)
3. Prints of darkness, in memoriam to M.G. Cutuli – J. Fuentes
Mixed Technique
23 x 100 cm
2001

4. Prints of darkness, memoriam to M.G. Cutuli – J. Fuentes
Mixed Technique
23 x 100 cm
2001

5. Prints of darkness, in memoriam to M.G. Cutuli – J. Fuentes
Mixed Technique
23 x 100 cm
2001

T. Melih Görgün (b. 1962)
6. On the way
Video
2001

Gülçin Aksoy (b. 1965)
7. Over there, over here
Video
2001

Ferhat Özgür (b. 1965)
8. Mortal Identities or Madonna and Child or Döne and Isa (Jesus)
Photograph
40 x 29.5 cm
2001

9. Four images
Photograph
40 x 29.5 cm
2001

10. Baby and fire
Photography
81 x 189 cm
2001

Neriman Polat (b. 1968)
11. Untitled
Photograph
40 x 76 cm
2000