Update: Due to the snowstorm expected to begin on the evening of 10 March, SAHA Studio Open, originally scheduled for Saturday, 12 March, has been postponed to Saturday, 2 April, from 12:00 to 19:00.
SAHA Studio, currently in its fourth term with the participation of Eser Epözdemir, Berat Işık, Ali Miharbi, İz Öztat, and TUNCA, opens its doors to the public on Saturday, 2 April, from 12:00 to 19:00.
Organized midway through the term, SAHA Studio Open is conceived as a gathering that invites dialogue around the ideas, circumstances, and concepts informing the projects that the artists will present through an exhibition and public program at the end of May.
On this occasion, SAHA Studio’s fourth-term artists share their works and ideas, still in development and open to transformation, with visitors. Eser Epözdemir presents the early stages of a new project shaped around key concepts such as the city, history, and fluidity, which have long informed her research. Berat Işık shares two new works in which he deconstructs his earlier videos with the intention of “bending” them, while TUNCA introduces the initial stages of a series that reexamines an ideological figure in light of contemporary political developments. Ali Miharbi creates a laboratory-like environment with experimental mechanisms that transmit data collected from their surroundings and the people within them. İz Öztat, meanwhile, invites visitors into the first iteration of an evolving space in which she continues her collaboration with Zişan, a figure who has appeared to her as a historical character, ghost, and alter ego since 2010.
Invited by the Selection Committee consisting of artist Gülsün Karamustafa, curator Özge Ersoy, and Çelenk Bafra, curator and Director of SAHA, the fourth-term artists have been working at SAHA Studio since October 2021. Everyone is welcome to SAHA Studio Open, an opportunity to meet the artists and engage in conversations about their ongoing research and artistic practices.
SAHA Studio Open
Saturday, 2 April 2022, 12:00–19:00
Venue: SAHA Studio
For further information: www.saha.org.tr / info@saha.org.tr
The venue will accommodate a maximum of 50 visitors at a time. In accordance with health and safety measures, all visitors are required to wear face masks.
