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In ihrer Auftragsarbeit für die SB13 entwirft Eviner eine alternative Welt, in der Maler und Dichter mit einer Rekalibrierung des Visuellen und des Verbalen beginnen.
Apr 2017In ihrem über zwanzigjährigen Schaffen hat sich İnci Eviner mit der Perspektive von Frauen, Prozessen der Organisation und der Herausbildung von Subjektivitäten beschäftigt. Ihre Werke lassen alternative Formen des Ausdrucks und der Existenz erkennen, die normative Darstellungsweisen hinterfragen. In der Sharjah Biennale 13 zeigt sie zwei Videos, in denen sie über Kunst, Politik und das Leben reflektiert. Beuys Underground (2017) präsentiert eine Alternative zur Gegenwart, in der eine repressive und erfolglose Regierung fiktive Feinde erschaffen hat, um ihre eigenen Fehler zu verschleiern. Da die Vergangenheit und Zukunft als Bezugspunkte des zeitgenössischen Bewusstseins unerreichbar geworden sind, beschloss eine Gruppe von Dichtern und Künstlern in den Untergrund zu gehen…
(Aus dem SB13 Guide Book. Aus dem Englischen: Haupt & Binder)
In another country and in present tense...
Oppressive governance with an anti-freedom agenda has invented fictional enemies to cover up its failures. These enemies are located outside the country borders and are intangible to the extent that digital technologies cannot reach them. The enemies are entirely outside our knowledge domain. The fear is so high, that all controversies and discrepancies are eliminated, and everyone goes back to his/her safe sphere. Another obvious result is the elimination of all possible opposition. People voluntarily delete their memories to be able to endure this situation. People who lose their pasts, childhood and incongruous longing included, begin a new life disconnected from this current world. Consequently, they drag themselves into a new search, once they realize that they are not able to endure the violence of forgetting and of loss.
They are forced to rediscover their existence through finding a shelter underground. The only emotion they can recognize is solitude, and the only tool they have at their disposal, is a limited number of art history books.
As relayed by an inhabitant:
We never felt as lonely as this; we never knew another world that’s different from ours. All our foreign relations were broken and therefore, we forgot our universal values. It was impossible to understand what was happening. Our faces disappeared from the mirrors in a world where no others existed. The past and the future fell into the well of forgetting. We did not know how to prove our existence in a reality where memory and the other were terminated. In order to remember, we had to find images, symbols, allegories, and an expression that would make a community out of us. The most appropriate way to do so was to utilize the opportunities offered to us by the arts, and find new nouns and visuals for redefining objects and our behaviors. We had to first and foremost think of how and through what we would define ourselves. Painters and poets took on this work and began to craft a recalibration of the visual and the verbal. This craft of the visual/verbal would become the guidebook for understanding what was going on in the country.
The following notions had to be defined immediately: Justice, laughter, cloud, headscarf, family, woman, drum, soldier, nurse, death, sculpture, separation, jealousy, hearing, mosque, Atatürk Cultural Center, Persian vase, love, cypress tree etc.
Joseph Beuys was one from the world of art and literature whom we asked for help, and it seemed wise to benefit from his healing and creative powers.
İnci Eviner, 2017
Videostills von Details:
Beuys Underground, 2017
Videoinstallation
2:40 Min.
Auftrag der Sharjah Art Foundation
Sharjah Biennale 13: Tamawuj Act 1
10. März - 12. Juni 2017
Ort: Kalligraphiezentrum
Einer der Preise der Sharjah Biennale 2017.
İnci Eviner
* 1956 Ankara, Türkei. Lebt in Istanbul, Türkei.
Siehe auch:
Special Feature: Sharjah Biennale 13