PUBLIC vs. PRIVATE

FASS Gallery

28^th December 2004- 13^th January 2005

 

 

 

 

“Notes on the Private versus                       Public

the individual vs.                                         the group

the artist                                                       the (his/her) public

the studio space                                            the gallery space

the working conditions                                the exposition situations

the time of execution (maturation)               the time of consumption (temporally)”[1] 

 

 

Is passing from private to public or vice versa as easy as placing them in an opposition?

The private is encoded as the protected and the intimate. As it becomes public, what was private can occur as an enigma. Public vs. Private is planned as a site for such enigmas, where the public is altered by what is no longer simply private.

 

This project is pioneering in bringing together the senior students of VACD master’s program. Under the curatorship of a senior theory student, the works of three senior studio students will be exhibited. The poster of the exhibition is designed by a senior VACD master’s student. The theme is chosen not just because it is a current, controversial topic. The site of Public vs. Private, dividing FASS Gallery into zones, reintroduces a sense of the intimate into a public space. The intervention, designed by the curator, altering the gallery space, is an invitation to the artists to open up their private senses of space to the public, together and separately.  

 

Aylin Sunam, İrem Arıkan and Tan Mavitan will propose different private (or enigmatic) solutions for the existent but disregarded ambiguities in the opposition ‘public vs. private’ in different media such as installation, video and drawing respectively. Their more than private, not yet fully public work invites their viewers into a changing sense of what is public.

 

The exhibition will be opened on 28^th December, at 18:30, and can be seen until 13^th January 2005.