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Volume 34, Issue 68, 2023
- Exhibition Reviews
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Iz Öztat: Underbelly
More LessUnderbelly, by Iz Öztat, is an exhibition that ran from February to May at Zilberman Istanbul, and featured themes from across the artist’s oeuvre musing on queer sculpture and art history through a variety of media, including video, installation, drawing and writing. This review examines and critiques the role of the artist’s biography and identity in the production and archiving of their work, foregrounding issues of cultural heritage and personal intimacy despite divisions of nationality, gender, and other limitations to the canonization of non-Western perspectives on the fringes of Europe. Öztat’s alter ego, ghost and muse, the character Zisan, parallels her own narratives of exile, as the fictive daughter of an Armenian photographer who flees Istanbul in 1915 and whose presence embodies forgotten victims of genocide, patriarchy and nationalism.
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Linet Sanchez: I Remember This Room
More LessLinet Sanchez creates miniature buildings and rooms she then documents through photography. These fictitious spaces are photographed to appear realistic and monumental in scale. Before knowing this, though, viewers can project their memories and lived experiences onto these constructed environments, influenced by Sanchez’s use of materials, lighting, and perspective. However, the illusion is not perfect, and the longer one engages with the art, hints emerge about its artifice. The way viewers interact with these photos emulates how information and memories can be misconstrued and re-presented as real.
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NIGHTSENSE
Authors: Jennifer Fisher and Jim Drobnick
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