Artist Name:
Şinasi Güneş
Title: 12th. Istanbul
Biennial
Time: 10:52
Media: Video-Art
Format: DVD Pal
Year: 2012
This film is criticizing 12th. Istanbul Biennial. It has created to result of using the framework of a new sense of space to the empty areas outside the exhibition spaces where Istanbul Biennial which made architectural design by the architect Ryue Nishizawa.
In the video-work Anatolia,
acts of covering and
wrapping are not
personalised. Cultural layers of
the past do not reach as
far as the cultural diversity
of the region
of Anatolia. The
covering of the model
here is gestural.
However, different social
roles are questioned
to point to the
feminine in this
work. The concept for
the video-work refers
to the issues
of taboo and privacy
in addition to
the cultural diversity
of Anatolia itself.
The feminine role
which appears in social
performances in society is overlapping with
the covering of the
model in the film. For example:
employed woman, woman
in the home,
the woman next to
her husband etc.
They show the psychology of regional wrapping. The film
emphasis notonly social strangulation but also that women have
been converted into cultural objects. Especially, woman’s freedom…
In addition to being related to the region of Anatolia, it
is a visual feast on on the diversity of traditions.
