{"id":69959,"date":"2017-10-17T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/art50.net\/15th-istanbul-biennial-7-works-not-be-missed\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T00:28:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T21:28:22","slug":"15th-istanbul-biennial-7-works-not-be-missed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/art50.net\/en\/15th-istanbul-biennial-7-works-not-be-missed\/","title":{"rendered":"15th Istanbul Biennial: 7 Works Not Be Missed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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All the works at the 15th Istanbul Biennial are worth being seen; but some are definitely not to be missed. Here is our selection of the seven works from the biennial that are a must-see.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Cande\u011fer Furtun, \u0130stanbul Modern<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The master\u2019s installation Untitled<\/em> (1994-96) consists of nine pairs of a man\u2019s legs and a hand. The work isolating these limbs from their functions and from the whole body they are part of, is reminiscent of areas dominated by male energy and masculine rituals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cande\u011fer Furtun, \u0130simsiz \/ iksvphoto.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Latifa Echakhch, \u0130stanbul Modern<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Moroccan artist\u2019s site-specific fresco, Crowd Fade <\/em>(2017), refers to the dissappointment social uprisings produce when they remain fruitless. The viewer is invited to walk through a narrow corridor between two walls facing each other and two lines of debris that fell off these walls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Latifa Echakhch, Silinen Kalabal\u0131k \/ iksvphoto.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Volkan Aslan, \u0130stanbul Modern<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With his three-channel video installation Home Sweet Home <\/em>(2017), 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Volkan Aslan, Home Sweet Home video<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Leander Sch\u00f6nweger, Galata Greek Primary School<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The young artist\u2019s work Our Family Lost<\/em> (2017) consists of a labyrinth composed of rooms that become smaller as the viewer proceeds. This dreamlike installation making the viewer lose his or her sense of direction also refers to concepts like alienation and the disintegration of social solidarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Leander Sch\u00f6nweger, Ailemiz Kaybetti\/Kayboldu \/ iksvphoto.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Erkan \u00d6zgen, Galata Greek Primary School<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the video Wonderland <\/em>(2016) by the artist born in Mardin and based in Diyarbak\u0131r, a hearing and talking-impaired boy named Muhammed tries to tell, through signs and gestures, the story of his trauma within the context of the migration wave taking over the entire Middle East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Erkan \u00d6zgen, Harikalar Diyar\u0131 \/ iksvphoto.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mark Dion, Galata Greek Primary School<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The artist, who is interested in ecosystems and the ways humans classify nature, creates two cabinets of curiosities titled Stubborn Weeds of Istanbul<\/em> (2017) and Resilient Marine Life of Istanbul<\/em> (2017). The first focuses on plants that have managed to survive despite intense urbanization in Istanbul, while the second addresses species that cling to life in the Bosphorus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mark Dion, \u0130stanbul\u2019un \u0130nat\u00e7\u0131 Otlar\u0131 \/ iksvphoto.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tsang Kin-Wah, Pera Museum<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Fourth Seal \u2013 HE is to No Purpose and HE Wants to Die for the Second Time <\/em>(2010) from the Hong Kong-based artist\u2019s Seven Seals<\/em> series is a multi-channel video installation of continuously looping words. The artist opening the gates into an existential questioning on the end of the world, is heavily inspired by religious and philosophical literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tsang Kin-Wah, Yedi M\u00fch\u00fcr serisinden D\u00f6rd\u00fcnc\u00fc M\u00fch\u00fcr \u2013 O Gayesiz ve O \u0130kinci Defa \u00d6lmek \u0130stiyor \/ tsangkinwah.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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All the works at the 15th Istanbul Biennial are worth being seen; but some are definitely not to be missed. Here is our selection of the seven works from the biennial that are a must-see. Cande\u011fer Furtun, \u0130stanbul Modern The master\u2019s installation Untitled (1994-96) consists of nine pairs of a man\u2019s legs and a hand. The work […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1456,"featured_media":70713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4516],"tags":[1540,1544,1565],"class_list":["post-69959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fuarlar-bienaller","tag-15-istanbul-bienali","tag-iyi-bir-komsu","tag-istanbul"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/art50.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/art50.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/art50.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art50.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1456"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art50.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69959"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/art50.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70745,"href":"https:\/\/art50.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69959\/revisions\/70745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art50.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/art50.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art50.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art50.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}