CATALOGUES
2017 Jardin Particulier,
French Palace, Istanbul, Turkey
October 24-29
Zilberman Gallery, İstanbul, Turkey
February 18 - April 30
2014 A Carriage Affair,
Galeri Zilberman, İstanbul, Turkey
May 10 - June 21
2011 Cabinet of Curiosities ,
Cda-Projects, İstanbul, Turkey
May 14 - June 14
CATALOGUES
2017 Jardin Particulier,
French Palace, Istanbul, Turkey
October 24-29
Zilberman Gallery, İstanbul, Turkey
February 18 - April 30
2014 A Carriage Affair,
Galeri Zilberman, İstanbul, Turkey
May 10 - June 21
2011 Cabinet of Curiosities ,
Cda-Projects, İstanbul, Turkey
May 14 - June 14
CATALOGUES
2017 Jardin Particulier,
French Palace, Istanbul, Turkey
October 24-29
Zilberman Gallery, İstanbul, Turkey
February 18 - April 30
2014 A Carriage Affair,
Galeri Zilberman, İstanbul, Turkey
May 10 - June 21
2011 Cabinet of Curiosities ,
Cda-Projects, İstanbul, Turkey
May 14 - June 14
CATALOGUES
2017 Jardin Particulier,
French Palace, Istanbul, Turkey
October 24-29
Zilberman Gallery, İstanbul, Turkey
February 18 - April 30
2014 A Carriage Affair,
Galeri Zilberman, İstanbul, Turkey
May 10 - June 21
2011 Cabinet of Curiosities ,
Cda-Projects, İstanbul, Turkey
May 14 - June 14
CATALOGUES
2017 Jardin Particulier,
French Palace, Istanbul, Turkey
October 24-29
Zilberman Gallery, İstanbul, Turkey
February 18 - April 30
2014 A Carriage Affair,
Galeri Zilberman, İstanbul, Turkey
May 10 - June 21
2011 Cabinet of Curiosities ,
Cda-Projects, İstanbul, Turkey
May 14 - June 14
Mythos and Utopia
February 28th – April 22nd, 2017
Zilberman Gallery, İstanbul, Turkey
The title of the exhibition is derived from the description of Istanbul in Ekrem Işın’s book titled Everyday Life in Istanbul. Following Cabinet of Curiosities in 2011 and A Carriage Affair in 2014, Mythos and Utopia is the last chapter in the exhibition series that the artist has realized with Zilberman Gallery. In this chapter she looks back at the city’s history as well as that of ceramic materials and blends memory and material to construct a new scenery. Now settled in İstanbul after having lived in Ankara and New York, the artist brings together the pieces of the past eons of a city caught between “mythos of the East and the utopia of the West”.
Bingöl’s interest and research on history began with the novel A Carrige Affair by Recaizade Mahmut Ekrem, after which her 2014 exhibition was titled. This interest outlines the characteristics of Mythos and Utopia. The artist traces the city and its creative history in order to construct alternative ways of relating herself through re-thinking form and tradition.
After pushing the meaning of “making ceramics” with the work Cruise, a ceramic copy of a life-size truck, Bingöl is
now focusing on the idea of “not making ceramics” but re-thinking what had been made in the region previously. She appropriates fragments and forms that have strong local connotations of tradition and material, and translates them into a web of interactions, a repertoire of forms, and images.
Mythos and Utopia deconstructs the existing relationships and associations built around the city and the materials. It creates an experimental scenery in which decorative fragments, objects and time overlap and become interlaced. Through repetition and time, image and object begin to reflect one another. While a site-specific clay application from an Iznik tile panel from the Topkapi Palace comes apart and is resurrected on the walls of the gallery, traditional ceramic forms suggest and adopt new forms –and non-forms– to create a unique diorama.
Mythos and Utopia traces a cultural heritage. By following the relics, it searches for a way to meet the self. It scrutinizes form and image by zooming in to the very essence of its components to create an integrated whole.
2017, ceramics, 12x12x21 cm
2017, installation; dried rose, clay, ceramics, archival digital print
2016, video, 2'35", Ed. 5+2 A.P.
2016, ceramics, 54x42x7 cm
2017, ceramics, 15x13x21 cm
2017, ceramics, 30x28x39 cm
2017, ceramics, 30x28x39 cm
2016, ceramics, 5 pieces, 55x8x31.5 cm
2016, ceramics, 5 pieces, 55x8x31.5 cm
2016, ceramics, 5 pieces, 55x8x31.5 cm
2016, ceramics, 5 pieces, 55x8x31.5 cm
2017, ceramics, metal, 25x85x78 cm
2017, ceramics, 19x11x7 cm - 19x11x5 cm
2016, glaze glass, 50x35x17 cm
2017, site-specific installation; dried flowers, clay, metal
2016, ceramics, 30x30x9 cm
Mythos and Utopia, Zilberman Gallery, Istanbul 2017
Mythos and Utopia, Zilberman Gallery, Istanbul 2017
Mythos and Utopia, Zilberman Gallery, Istanbul 2017
Mythos and Utopia, Zilberman Gallery, Istanbul 2017
Mythos and Utopia, Zilberman Gallery, Istanbul 2017
Mythos and Utopia, Zilberman Gallery, Istanbul 2017
Mythos and Utopia, Zilberman Gallery, Istanbul 2017
Mythos and Utopia, Zilberman Gallery, Istanbul 2017
Mythos and Utopia, Zilberman Gallery, Istanbul 2017