The first exhibition of the Project Room, Artvarium was realized by Gülsün Karamustafa. Karamustafa is one of our important artists recognized worldwide. The artist, who has also worked in cinema, has produced works that approach political and social phenomena in a critical and karmic framework, challenging traditional judgments and assumptions.
This project was the second of four projects within the framework of Orientalism that the artist worked on in 1999-2000. The project was premiered at the IFA gallery in Stuttgart, Germany and later presented at the Kwang-Ju International Biennial in South Korea.
Taking her cue from Palestinian-American literary critic and philosopher Edward Said's (1935-2003) important theoretical and historical research 'Orientalism', which criticizes the western view of the east and shakes the dominant positionings, Karamustafa was revealing the western and male-dominated view she obtained by fragmenting orientalist paintings. The exhibition criticized phenomena such as dominance, power and judgmentalism in art with its own methodology.
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