EXHIBITION

Someone Else’s Story

EXHIBITION
Someone Else’s Story

Ebru Gökçe

Ebru Gökçe graduated from Vefa High School and later obtained her degree in Philosophy from Boğaziçi University. During her studies, she engaged in interdisciplinary independent research and volunteered in various projects centred around Expressive Arts and Art Therapy-focused workshops with children at the Maya Foundation and Boğaziçi University.

Between 2020 and 2021, Ebru Gökçe completed her master’s degree in “Philosophy and the Arts” at the University of Warwick in the UK, with a thesis titled “Witnessing Violence Through Images: How to Respond to Extreme Aesthetics”, achieving Merit. She later joined Arter’s Learning Program team as an Exhibition Guide, also collaborating in facilitating children's workshops.

From 2022 to 2024, Gökçe worked as a Project Manager under Habitat Association’s Digital Transformation Program. In 2023-2024, she completed the “Curating Contemporary Art” seminar programme, organised in collaboration with Open Dialogue Istanbul and Akbank Sanat. She is currently a Project Manager under Habitat Association’s Entrepreneurship Programme, contributing to international processes and business development initiatives.

Someone Else’s Story

The exhibition brings together the works of seven artists from different geographies. The proposed unity it presents is a modest envisioning of countless stories around the world.

Certain experiences etched in our memories remain within us with all their weight. They carry the difficulty of coping, the relative insignificance of the moment experienced, and the irresistible meaninglessness of continuing.

But are these stories, pains, and disasters only for the ones who experience them? At what point do they touch other individual stories that remain beyond? "Someone Else's Story" traces the paths of some stories that could emerge from the streets of cities, inside homes, between the pages of textbooks, or from our screens. This journey invites us to witness events from a series of independent, interconnected, indistinct distances, from places on Earth and nowhere at all. Here, the paths intersect with what is difficult and merciless, with what is incomprehensible. The traces of influence become entangled. Within this heap of images, can touching wounds and scabs establish new "togetherness" beyond the clutches of good-evil, innocence-absolute power?

“Someone Else's Story” invites a hidden relationality within the quest for meaning that stands against dominant power for everyone who can find a place in each other's stories.

The exhibition brings together the works of seven artists from different geographies. The proposed unity it presents is a modest envisioning of countless stories around the world. While making the various states of looking at cruelty visible, it creates a common inquiry around what can be 'shared.'

Artists & Works

Aslı Çavuşoğlu

The Mourning Herald, 2020

Silk-screened print on newsprint, wood rack

381×89 cm

Supported by SAHA through MASS MoCA

Courtesy of the artist

Eda Gecikmez

The Bird is Unseen, yet its Voice is in the Tree, 2022

Installation (ink drawings on paper of various sizes, foil application of the bird's-eye view map of the Euphrates River on the shop window, and booklet)

400 x 600 cm

Courtesy of the artist

Gesiye

The Wound is a Portal, 2022

8 photographs, single-channel video (color, sound), 11’11’’

Courtesy of the artist

Hale Tenger

Beirut, 2005-2007

Single channel video projection with sound, 3’47’’

Courtesy of the artist

Hera Büyüktaşçıyan

Kılçık III, 2019

Installation, bronze, variable dimensions

Courtesy of the artist

Laku Neg

Spirited, 2022

Adeola Dewis, Mary-Anne Roberts, Miguela Gonzalez with Cindy Ward

Site-specific installation

Variable dimensions

Courtesy of the Artist

Oraib Toukan

Offing, 2021

One channel video (color, sound), 28’

Courtesy of the artist

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