Why are you here?, 2016

Exhibition
Written By Merve Unsal

Exhibition (with From a Window and All fears are dulled by routine)

TOZ artist-run space, Istanbul

February 13-28, 2016

Emanuele Satolli, Merve Ünsal, Valentino Bellini & Eileen Quinn

Could the photograph become a performative act? How can it transform the relationship between the photographer, the photographed, and the viewer? For me, “Why are you here,” the first exhibition of TOZ, takes these questions as a departure point. Bringing together works by Valentino Bellini & Eileen Quinn, Emanuele Satolli, and Merve Ünsal, the exhibition is placed in an artist’s studio-cum-exhibition space—a storefront, to be precise—, which also amplifies this proposition.

—excerpted from Özge Ersoy’s text On Hold, published in full here.

Merve Unsal
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