Agoraphobia
Prologue exhibition of the 13th Istanbul Biennial, TANAS, Berlin, 25 May - 27 July 2013. Curators: Fulya Erdemci and Bige Örer. Co-curator: Kevser Güler
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Curator Fulya Erdemci explaining the work by Free:
Protest Is Beautiful. 2007/2013
Billboard poster, postcard
Freee is a collective made up of three artists, Dave Beech, Andy Hewitt and Mel Jordan, who work together on slogans, billboards and publications that challenge the commercial and bureaucratic colonization of the public sphere of opinion formation.
Protest is beautiful is a Freee slogan-sculpture first made in silk flowers produced by a funeral florist in 2007 at the time of a resurgence of protest after the invasion of Iraq in 2005. Since the protests failed to stop the war, subsequent protests were seen by many as destined for the same failure. At the same time, every protest was narrated by the media and political leaders as ugly, violent, chaotic, destructive and pointless. Freee used a wreath to represent both the apparent death of protest and its neglected beauty.
(From the handout of Agoraphobia)
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
Prologue exhibition of the 13th Istanbul Biennial, TANAS, Berlin, 25 May - 27 July 2013. Curators: Fulya Erdemci and Bige Örer. Co-curator: Kevser Güler