Wednesday, 16 February 2011

newsfromlabiennale201102

Ayse Erkmen (Istanbul in 1949) is representing Turkey at the 54 La Biennale di Venezia, in 2011

2001, Shipped Ships, Three Ferries from Italy, Japan & Turkey with Crews, Passengers, Ship.
(dimensions 2.435x412x80cm, 1.900x275x80cm, and 2.682x520x125cm)

Ayse Erkmen creates irritating situations by staging subtle references to the specific conditions of the exhibition site and the metaphorical associations it evokes [...]

She develops almost all her works from particular spatial or social situations, be these exhibition venues or their urban settings. Her choice of artistic means is specific to each project and ranges from the translocation of existing objects to wall texts to discrete interventions in a material or sociological situation [...]

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