Memory Objects: Goethe-Institut Istanbul
17 September 2020 - 8 January 2021
Memory Objects, Goethe-Institut Istanbul

Curious Objects II: Memory Objects by Eda Soylu, curated by Ekmel Ertan

 

The Curious Objects exhibition refers to the Cabinets of Curiosity (Wunderkammer) that emerged in the 16th century with the idea of ​​the Renaissance. Cabinets of Curiosity were private collections that combined extraordinary natural or man-made objects as an effort to classify the knowledge of the things in the age of discoveries. In today's technological twilight, while our knowledge and objects multiply exponentially, our need to understand, make sense of, and our curiosity increases exponentially. Three connected exhibitions titled “Thought Objects”, “Memory Objects” and “Objects of Desire”, which will take place throughout the year at the Goethe Institute, invite artists to objectify their curiosity today.

 

Eda Soylu's series of works exhibited in different contexts and times come together in Memory Objects and touch our common memory with a new fiction. Common memory is selective, it consists of forgetting as well as remembering. Who tells the narratives that shape our memory; what does he remember and what does he forget? In order to overcome the fears and anxieties of herself and her generation, Soylu creates a subtle game between forgetting and remembering by transforming evidence of violence into colorful, soft, flawless objects; she creates her own objects of curiosity to reproduce the life energy.
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