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vacant abode: family portraits

unoccupied 2: family portraits

The Empty House: Family Portraits| Jesse Gagliardi | Unoccupied 2: Family Portraits
Exhibition dates and times | Exhibition dates and hours: 4-20 November | November 2016 
Location | Space : Frowning kas  Sokak, no: 48, Kamer Hatun, Beyoğlu
Opening | Opening: 4.11.2016 @ 16.00

The exhibition can be viewed by appointment until 20 November|The exhibition can be visited till 20th. November by appointment.

Exhibition talk with Emily Arauz | Exhibition talk moderated by Emily Arauz:  4.11.2016 @ 18.00

Curator | Curator: İbrahim Cansızoğlu

 

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“The Empty House 2: Family Portraits” opens its doors to the audience on November 4 at 16:00. After the opening, the exhibition will continue with a speech.  The artist and curator will discuss gentrification, immigrant art and cultural heritage in the context of the exhibition._cc781905-5cde-3194_bb358-136 Üçok's collision with Gagliardi's work resulted in a series of free texts in the fanzine to accompany the exhibition. James Barron, Giorgio Caione, Levent Kalkan, Çağatay Apaydın  for their support

and Alp Esin. 

 

All viewers are invited to the exhibition speech and then the party to be held at the artist's studio. The exhibition can be visited between 5-20 November by appointment. You can send your exhibition tour requests via e-mail or phone.

 

 

İbrahim Cansızoğlu: ibrahimcansizoglu@gmail.com, 05358310134

Jesse Gagliardi: jessegagliardi@gmail.com, 05395734391

 

 

 

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“Unoccupied 2: Family Portraits” is a solo exhibition project of Gagliardi's that will be presented in an abandoned two-floor family house in Aynalıçeşme. Although the Greek owners of the house died long ago, the one hundred year old building still survives with old fig and terebinth trees in its garden. The solo exhibition project was inspired by the discovery of a series of old photographs Gagliardi found on the street. After hanging and living with the photographs in his studio, Gagliardi began a production process using mixed media with the intention of replacing the figures in the photographs. Gagliardi recreated the unknown family in the found photographs through the use of a wide range of artistic practices such as sculpture, installation, assemblage, and woodcarving. Gagliardi's transformation of found objects through multiple layers of craftsmanship conveys an Arte Povera sensibility. Objects carved out of dried bread and antique rugs channel a subtle feeling of discomfort while installations assembled out of scrap materials reflect Gagliardi's affective approach towards materiality. The acute attention he gives to found, collected, and recycled materials, as well as to the charged atmospheres of the everyday, enables Gagliardi to create a haunted, yet carnate space. How do affective intensities come to be vested in situations, materials, landscapes, and imaginaries? How do people encountering them become attuned to the sense of something dissonant, something as enduring as ruin, something silently bearing the affective traces of what is lost, something disturbingly awaiting sterilization by urban redevelopment? The genre of the portrait is the artist's aesthetic tool for obscuring and deepening this process of attunement.

During the exhibition talk Emily Arauz, the artist and curator will discuss issues of gentrification, migration art, and cultural heritage. Umut Yıldırım and Gözde Üçok's engagement with Gagliardi's work resulted in a series of free-associative prose texts that make up the fanzine that accompanies the exhibition.  We would like to thank James Barron, Giorgio Caione, Levent Kalkan, Çağatay Apaydın and Alp Esin for their support. 

The exhibition can be visited by appointment between November 5-20. You may request an exhibition tour via e-mail or phone:

İbrahim Cansızoğlu: ibrahimcansizoglu@gmail.com, 05358310134

Jesse Gagliardi: jessegagliardi@gmail.com, 05395734391

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