December 22, 2020 – March 14, 2021
\nRanging from almost perfect transparency to complete opacity, crystals have been used in all areas of human activity, from science to magic, from technology to healing. Scientists typically describe crystals as \u201cgrowing\u201d, even though in their eyes they are not alive. Many living organisms, such as mollusks, are able to produce crystals. In ancestral cultures, crystals and minerals are regarded as sentient. Indeed, they constitute a perfect example of the fluid and porous boundaries between the animate and inanimate, organic and inorganic. Taking crystals and their vibrant matter as a point of departure, the exhibition Crystal Clear went beyond their emblematic use. Rather it aimed to develop a contained ecosystem with diverse entanglements of the production, display, and recycling of the artistic, curatorial, and institutional work, material and immaterial.
\nIn collaboration with all the participating artists, Crystal Clear devised methods and tools for sustainable curating, going beyond just thinking about ecology or sustainability, but rather inventing and enacting principles allowing the reduction of the carbon footprint of exhibition making: radical limits on the shipping of objects, local collaborative production of exhibited work, creative recycling strategies, and extremely reduced travel for all the participants.
\nConceived long before the advent of Covid-19 pandemic, the project was already developing models of programmatic changes for exhibition production. Interested in the imperfect contaminated transparencies of crystals and opacities of the soil, the project\u2019s pre-Covid stage critically intersected with ideas from two books, \u201cDown to Earth\u201d by Bruno Latour and \u201cThe Transparency Society\u201d by Byung-Chul Han. Today anyone can obtain information about anything. Everything\u2014and everyone\u2014has become transparent, unveiled and exposed. Yet transparency has its dark side and can turn into opacity, without us even noticing it.
\nBut the pandemic shifted and bent many of our initial questions, which moved en masse into public discussions, getting new perspectives and points of view. Working through Covid conditions, Crystal Clear offered the artists the possibility of engaging with these and other current mutations of our environment, seen through the crystalline optics.
\nCurated by Elena Sorokina, the exhibition featured the artists Sammy Baloji, Minia Biabiany, Katinka Bock, Bianca Bondi, Gaelle Choisne, Sinem Di\u015fli, K\u0131ymet Da\u015ftan, Elmas Deniz, Gluklya (Natalia Pershina-Yakimanskaya), Deniz G\u00fcl, Ilana Halperin in collaboration with Knitstanbul, G\u00fcls\u00fcn Karamustafa, Yazan Khalili, Paul Maheke, \u015eener \u00d6zmen, \u0130z \u00d6ztat, Hale Tenger, G\u00fcne\u015f Terkol, Berkay Tuncay and Adrien Vescovi.<\/p>\n
Source: www.peramuzesi.org.tr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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