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Aslan's three-channel video Home Sweet Home (2017) was shown at 15th Istanbul Biennial commissioned by Biennial curators Elmgreen & Dragset. With his three-channel video installation, Volkan Aslan questions the boundaries between the sedentary and the nomadic, the indoor and the outdoor, the safe and the unsafe situations, pointing out to the fragility of the current state of each and every one of us.
Artist Volkan Aslan
Artist Assistan Deniz Duygu Vural
In 2014, Arter featured a comprehensive solo exhibition by Füsun Onur, one of Turkey's pioneering contemporary artists. Curated by Arter's Exhibitions Director Emre Baykal, the exhibition borrowed its title from Lewis Carroll's book "Through the Looking Glass".
"Through the Looking Glass" brought together more than 40 works spanning from the artist's early career to her most recent production.
The works in the exhibition covered an era of almost 50 years committed to an uninterrupted research on the potentials of space, time, rhythm and form that are inherent in simple, everyday materials. The exhibition thus aimed to offer a survey of Füsun Onur's body of work, from early abstract geometric drawings to the idea of sculpture as a linear drawing in space; from three-dimensional spatial objects to installations that employ ordinary materials such as furniture, textiles, beads, toys and so on.
Artist Füsün Onur
Artist Assistant Deniz Duygu Vural
Artist Assistant Deniz Duygu Vural
Don't Forget To Remember
In "Don't Forget To Remember" Volkan Aslan is interested in a subjective perception of time in which its linear flow is interrupted through the act of 'remembering' and 'forgetting'. As our weekly calendars thrust us collectively forward, the 'days' in "Don't Forget To Remember" draw Aslan back towards the past, and towards the impressions that occupy his personal memory.