Istanbul: A Familiar Crowd

2021

Istanbul: A Familiar Crowd consists of portrait photographs of about 100 people selected based on the only criteria of living in Istanbul. Sociologist Andrea Mubi Brighenti’s analogy between body/face and soil/city relations paves the way to represent the city for the artist. Brighenti points to the interconnected place between both the face and the city, as distinct from the bodies they are physically connected to. And the artist, thanks to the open-ended nature of his selection criteria, aims to chart this out on the faces of these people who randomly came together, integrating elements of their actual socio-psychological unity.

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2021

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120 poster prints

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Sabancı Üniversitesi Sakıp Sabancı Müzesi (Emirgan, İstanbul, Türkiye)

Object Number:

NONE79

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