2010 | AFERIM YAVRUM!
INSTALLATIONS:
LITTLE GESTURES OF COOPERATION
VIDEOS:
PHOTOS EXHIBITION AFERIM YAVRUM
PHOTOS EXHIBITION H. BÖLL FOUNDATION - BERLIN
AN
EXHIBITION OF SILVINA DER MEGUERDITCHIAN IN ISTANBUL
5 FEBRUAR- 13 MARCH 2010
BM SUMA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER
The exhibition Well done, my little child! is dealing with a memory, forgiveness and reconciliation process that SILVINA DER-MEGUERDITCHIAN had since over 20 years. She is the granddaughter of Armenian immigrants to Argentina and was born in Buenos Aires in 1967. She grew up in Argentina and since 1988 lives in Berlin.
In the last 20 years she collected very carefully every contact that she had with Turkish people, some less positive as others, overcoming fear, negative prejudices and questioning the image of Turkish between hated and beloved, between object of rejection and object of desire, between heimlich and unheimlich. As result of this internal struggle she did also artworks that try to find a visual expression for not enounced facts and feelings.
The
show has a very heterogeneous language (installation, video, sound installation,
rugs, bi-dimensional image, etc.) that depicts the hard path of reconciliation
with moments of sadness, anger and also moments of humour and joy. The
exhibition in Istanbul will have new works from the series Semantic fields
and 4 new video works, beside other older works of reference to this issue.
Also the work in progress "Other little gestures" is presented
in the exhibition. The
visitors are invited to spread the word and contribute to the work sending
their own stories of little gestures of cooperation. The stories will
be published in www.littlegesturesofcooperation.blogspot.com.