Now you can cross without touching

2021

Aiming to encourage viewers to examine, develop and diversify their own “urban imaginary” of Istanbul, this piece traces how certain structures and spatial designs may render political objectives visible. The development of an increasingly hierarchical urban design and the dominance of waterway projects in current infrastructural attempts in Istanbul inspire the artist to reflect on the visual cues that we encounter in our experience with the city’s bridges. The work develops a strong contrast and tension between the monumental bridges built in the last 50 years on the Bosphorus, and their smaller and historical antecedents on its natural harbor of the Golden Horn to show how differentiations of access can create varying understandings of the same space. The movement of the piece suggests that the urban imaginary exists, not as a fixed conception of the space, but as a dynamic and collective process that occurs in the space between our individual experiences.

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Date:

2021

Medium:

Cardboard, found objects

Location:

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

Object Number:

NONE83

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Exhibition History