Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Pera Museum is preparing to host two new exhibitions in December. Portuguese artist Paula Rego, who redefines figurative art, invites the viewer to a magical space with his paintings that present innocence and experience together and hide deep meanings and narratives in his exhibition The Story of Stories. Bringing together the contemporary visual narratives of the city by 11 photographers living in Istanbul, Zamane Istanbuls exhibition is a creative reading attempt on today's Istanbul.
Strong and uncompromising: Paula Rego
With an extraordinary imagination, revolutionary in the way women are represented and uncompromising, Portuguese artist Paula Rego highlights her personal nature, the sociopolitical context in which she is rooted, themes such as oppression, authority and institutional violence in many of her works. Curated by Alistair Hicks, the exhibition features oil, pastel, charcoal and acrylic paintings and installations by the artist. Paula Rego: The Story of Stories exhibition showcases Rego's early works of the 1960s focusing on both personal and social struggle, large-format paintings with single figures produced in the 1990s with strong expressions, and works of layered scenes produced after 2000. offers together.
One thousand and one faces of Megakent Istanbul
Zamane Istanbulları photography exhibition brings together the recent works of 11 photographers living in Istanbul and producing in different styles. Curated by Refik Akyüz and Serdar Darendeliler, the exhibition presents striking sections from the megacity to the audience under different themes. Among these themes are the city's topography of emptiness, loneliness, uncanny and precariousness, its social and political movements, the issue of migration that has become more evident in recent years, young individuals who took refuge in Istanbul to live without being labeled as the 'other' in the social hierarchy scale, megacity, the number of which increased exponentially in the last quarter of the century. There is also one of the projects, Kanal Istanbul. The photography exhibition, consisting of works by Silva Bingaz, Osman Bozkurt, Ci Demi, Kıvılcım Güngörn, Ekin Özbiçer, Emin Özmen, Ahmet Sel, Ali Taptık, Kerem Uzel, Erdem Varol and Cansu Yıldıran, reflects the artists' practice of interpreting the city as a personal interaction space and It brings up the extraordinary, as well as the usual oddities that we encounter on its streets.
The catalog of the exhibition, on the other hand, is enriched with texts written by Yaşar Adnan Adanalı, Fırat Genç, Şebnem İşigüzel, Melisa Keskin, Biray Koloğlu, Gamze Toksoy and Sibel Yardimci, who work, research, think or create fictions on the same subjects, inspired by the works that make up the exhibition.
Pera Museum's new exhibitions, Paula Rego: The Story of Stories and Istanbuls of Time, can be visited between December 22, 2022 – April 30, 2023.
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