EXHIBITION

On the Threshold…

EXHIBITION
On the Threshold…

Özde Nalan Köseoğlu

Özde Nalan Köseoğlu received her Ph.D. in 2017 from the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Istanbul University. She advances her academic, artistic and curatorial inquiries through works in theatre, cinema, and class studies. Her research explores themes of threshold/(co)existence, root/home and archive, seeking to expand the questions surrounding these concepts.

On the Threshold…

The exhibition "On the Threshold..." endeavors to invert the "repositories of feelings and emotions" within threshold-spaces, each of which serves as a meeting ground.

We encounter on the thresholds… We collide, transform, scatter, and regather. Through experience, we render that 'place' into space. Therefore, every space becomes a realm of conflict to some extent. 

Regardless of whether we are aware of it, we vary and become different with "the power of the thresholds to unite what is separate and to separate what is different”. For each encounter leaves an indelible mark, persisting both within us and throughout the very fabric of the surrounding environment.

The threshold is a passage, a pause, a blurred boundary, an in-betweenness. The threshold simultaneously encompasses the inside and the outside, the private and the public, the apparent and the hidden, the end and the beginning. The traces within the threshold possess a power that goes beyond itself, enabling encounters, intersections, forming contact surfaces, familiarizing with uncertainties and expanding into change. “...The important fact is that the threshold acquires its meaning as a point of both contact and separation through the practices that cross it.” Finds oneself in the arena that lies on the threshold. Trapped in the seemingly safe and private confines of one’s home, one takes refuge on the path of migration and becomes exiled within one’s own body, at times finding liberation within the confines of an imposed prison.

The exhibition "On the Threshold..." endeavors to invert the "repositories of feelings and emotions" within threshold-spaces, each of which serves as a meeting ground. It strives to comprehend how emotions find their place within this repository, how they contend with one another on the surface of contact, how they shape us and how we are shaped by them.

Georg Simmel, cited by Stavros Stavrides, Urban Heterotopia: Towards a City of Thresholds as a Space of Liberation, Istanbul, Sel Yayıncılık, 2016, p. 98.

Stavrides, op. cit., p. 17.

Ann Cvetkovich, cited by Sara Ahmed, The Cultural Politics of Emotion, Istanbul, Sel Yayıncılık, 2015, p. 24.

Artists & Works

Deniz Aktaş

Untitled 2, 2018

Archival pigment print on Dibond

30 x 40 cm

3+1 AP, av.ed. ⅔

Courtesy of the artist

Savaş Boyraz

The State We Are In, 2016-2019

Print on fabric

135 x 135 cm

Courtesy of the artist

Tülin Aşlar

Confinement, 2021

Assemblage installation

100 × 60 cm

Courtesy of the artist

Çağlar Kanzık

Gool/Penalty, 2013

Panel no 6

Photograph

Courtesy of the artist

Başak Bugay

One Wish, Feast, Night Owl, Minautore, 2017

Mixed media, hand sewing

Variable dimensions

Installation view: Millî Reasürans Art Gallery

Photo: Studio Majo

Courtesy of the artist

Başak Bugay

One Wish, 2017

Mixed media, hand sewing

40 x 50 x 55 cm                                   

Photo: Burcu Aksoy, Mihriban Demircan, Studio Majo         

Courtesy of the artist

Başak Bugay

Feast, 2017

Mixed media

33 x 24,2 x 30 cm

Photo: Burcu Aksoy, Mihriban Demircan, Studio Majo   

Courtesy of the artist

Başak Bugay

Night Owl, 2017

Mixed media, hand sewing

51 x 38 x 38 cm                                   

Photo: Burcu Aksoy, Mihriban Demircan, Studio Majo                                                          

Courtesy of the artist

Başak Bugay

Minautore, 2016

Mixed media, hand sewing

41 x 43 x 38,3 cm                                   

Photo: Burcu Aksoy, Mihriban Demircan, Studio Majo                                                          

Courtesy of the artist

Nazan Azeri

Iobjects, 2003

Lambda print

Variable dimensions

Courtesy of the artist

Eda Çekil

Inside, 2018-2020

100 glass bottles and photographs

6 x 3 cm each

Photo: Barış Özçetin

Courtesy of the artist and BüroSarıgedik

Enes Kaya

Doors, 2022

Photograph

Variable dimensions

Courtesy of the artist

Anita Toutikian

Exbroidery 8: The Return, 2015

Embroidery & photograph

112 x 50 cm

Embroidery: Hripsimeh Sarkissian

Photo: Tarek Mokaddem

Courtesy of the artist

Uğur Bişirici

Baggage, 2017

Installation

104x75x46 cm, 82x70x50 cm, 75x65x40 cm

Courtesy of the artist

Kazım Kızıl

Untitled, 2023

Photograph

Variable dimensions

Courtesy of the artist

Selin Göksel

Limbo, 2016

Painted wooden bowl, colored copper wire and transparent resin coating

20 x 8 x 3 cm

Courtesy of the artist

Selin Göksel

Inside Out, 2016

Installation

Paper, spray paint, wood, wire

94,6 x 29,5 cm, 6,5 x 38,5 x 2 cm, 84 x 29 x 1 cm

Courtesy of the artist

Mae-Ling Lokko

Thresholds of Return, 2015-2021

Installation

Variable dimensions

Photo: Selma Gürbüz

Courtesy of the artist

Aslı Uludağ

The Knot Loom, 2021

Installation

Courtesy of the artist

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