Gate 27, farklı pratiklerin araştırma ve üretim süreçlerini desteklemek ve disiplinlerarası etkileşime zemin yaratmak amacıyla 2019’da kurulmuş bir uluslararası konuk sanatçı programıdır.
Gate 27, farklı pratiklerin araştırma ve üretim süreçlerini desteklemek ve disiplinlerarası etkileşime zemin yaratmak amacıyla 2019’da kurulmuş bir uluslararası konuk sanatçı programıdır.
Lika Tarkhan-Mouravi is an artist, independent curator, and researcher based in London. She will stay at Gate 27 Yeniköy as a part of the Open Space Guest Curator Program. Lika’s practice focuses on intersections between visual arts and text. Lika is currently undertaking an LAHP funded Ph.D. at the Royal College of Art, where she is researching alternative ways to translate marginalized texts.
In her seminal study, The Black Sea, writer Neal Ascherson reaffirms the myth that the Black Sea was formed as a result of flooding, and its large mass of a lifeless body is said to overflow further. If the Black Sea in the past connected nations, carrying influences and cultures across, today it resembles a void, an imaginary border casting its constraints and precariousness on the surrounding countries. Does preserving history become more vital under circumstances of no future? And how, in these vulnerable conditions, can one forge connections between ideas and people separated by physical boundaries?
During her residency in Istanbul, Lika will speculate on this myth to forge new connections among the communities long separated by the dark body of water. Lika will study the Huma Kabakcı Collection and the extraordinary trajectory that connects the artworks housed within it. Drawing on Istanbul’s diverse communities, Lika will explore texts from around the Black Sea region and contemplate their connections with the works of artists from Istanbul’s ethnically diverse communities.