Descrizione

Paperback. Pbo. 4to. (28 x 24 cm) In English and Turkish. 111, [7] p., color and b/w photos. Habitat.= Habitat. Kürsat Bayhan, Kerem Ozan Bayraktar, Zeynep Beler, Görkem Ergun, Beril Gür, Çaglar Kanzik, Oguz Karakütük, Barbaros Kayan, Gündüz Kayra, Neslihan Koyuncu, Desislava Senay Martiova, Ali Taptik, Serkan Taycan. [Exhibition catalogue]. Artist selection / photography advisory board: Merih Akogul, Orhan Cem Çetin, Murat Germen, Sitki Kösemen. Translated by Hande Eagle, Linda Stark. Istanbul Modern¿s latest contemporary photography exhibition, "Habitat", brings together varied perspectives on the spaces we live in. The exhibition examines the evolving concept of space, continuously defined and redefined, through the work of 13 artists selected by Istanbul Modern¿s Photography Advisory Board. Habitat, the place where an organism lives and grows, is sometimes used to define the setting for life¿s basic motion and conflict. All living creatures have to adapt to their environment or relocate in order to survive and continue their bloodlines. Their habitats are physically redesigned and restructured under the pressure of daily conditions. The borders that are drawn to determine biological, personal or political spaces usually give rise to contradictions and conflict. Spaces are not only shaped by physical intervention but also by social and personal memory; vestiges of events ingrained in our memory also shape the way spaces are recreated and reproduced in the collective conscience. Both conceptually and physically, habitat is being redefined every moment by the changing balance of power and the continual transformation this change creates.