https://metincanguzel.cargo.site metincan guzel Thu, 18 May 2023 21:20:33 +0000 https://metincanguzel.cargo.site en https://metincanguzel.cargo.site/Home Thu, 18 May 2023 21:20:31 +0000 metincan guzel https://metincanguzel.cargo.site/Home Current Shows: Too Close to Home, Performance,&nbsp; SALT&nbsp; 09.05.2026 Barajdan Sizanlar, &nbsp;Group Exhibition,&nbsp; SALT,&nbsp; 23.04.2026 Jester Residency 26.02.2026 Artist Talk, Who is in Town?, SALT&nbsp;24.12.2025 Open Studios Jan van Eyck Academie, 23.10.2025 - 25.10.2025 <img width="5860" height="3907" width_o="5860" height_o="3907" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dc76ec01c6126411ec555f74659162614d4fc2dfd595f9f4c2723fb1d1890189/A6401667.JPG" data-mid="179482687" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dc76ec01c6126411ec555f74659162614d4fc2dfd595f9f4c2723fb1d1890189/A6401667.JPG" />Magical Nature of Diasporic Spaces https://metincanguzel.cargo.site/The-Magical-Nature-of-Diasporic-Spaces Thu, 18 May 2023 21:20:32 +0000 metincan guzel https://metincanguzel.cargo.site/The-Magical-Nature-of-Diasporic-Spaces THE MAGICAL NATURE OF DIASPORIC SPACES ‘Magical Nature of Diasporic Spaces’ looks at Turkish diasporic spaces in the Netherlands. Guzel’s own journeys to Turkish districts in four different cities in the Netherlands are a basis for the project, which revolves around a psycho-geographic approach. The project hinges on two focal questions: How can the materiality of physical space allow someone to access an imaginary space?&nbsp; How can one read and interpret the magical nature of diasporic spaces? Guzel confronts specific Turkish businesses such as barber shops and döner shops and bakery examining how they inhabit buildings in Dutch neighborhoods and analysing the resulting unique, diasporic spatial architecture. Guzel reads these diasporic spaces as juxtaposing several polarities, which transform each other and ultimately create an ambiguous hybrid form. In unpacking this phenomenon he proposes that these are magical diasporic spaces that are constantly morphing. Consisting of three wooden structures that are informed by the storefront facades on Turkish diasporic streets, the installation celebrates the cohabitation of ‘home and away, exterior and interior, transparency and opacity, and past and now’. The facades act as broken doorsteps to a daydream, a sense of being in multiple places at once.&nbsp; The work employs a queering methodology in order to manipulate the familiarity of barber shops and döner shops and to present these spaces in unconventional configurations and scales. Ultimately, the goal is to challenge the audience’s navigation and bodily experience to reveal and enrich the queer potential of diasporic spaces. Text by&nbsp;Ben Shai van der Wal <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4cc4d3e957795f2ef4c196c1b3e8330b8a992ca6a0bf0cd9962bb4d742bd441e/A6401680.JPG" data-mid="179225864" border="0" data-scale="98" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4cc4d3e957795f2ef4c196c1b3e8330b8a992ca6a0bf0cd9962bb4d742bd441e/A6401680.JPG" />&nbsp; Photography: Ali Rıza Atakan Gür <img width="1888" height="1258" width_o="1888" height_o="1258" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7a9144a7e9a5278f4b0a5474158c1b3e4adde37bcdd4b4d74c642ffc58d97285/Screen-Shot-2022-10-01-at-13.00.02.png" data-mid="179225946" border="0" data-scale="98" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7a9144a7e9a5278f4b0a5474158c1b3e4adde37bcdd4b4d74c642ffc58d97285/Screen-Shot-2022-10-01-at-13.00.02.png" /> Photography: Femke Reijerman <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" 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height_o="3384" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3fd97876174dce9f29de0777d40312f5ce74c2ceb7eb288761d19df2ca006ad3/DSCF5082.jpg" data-mid="179226782" border="0" data-scale="98" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3fd97876174dce9f29de0777d40312f5ce74c2ceb7eb288761d19df2ca006ad3/DSCF5082.jpg" /> Photography: Rebekka Jochem <img width="3294" height="3327" width_o="3294" height_o="3327" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/41f00f0aaa68e0aa0b2d519f29b947bb1fe388ad8f3ebe712f871b531d02e271/kontrastli.jpg" data-mid="179226819" border="0" data-scale="76" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/41f00f0aaa68e0aa0b2d519f29b947bb1fe388ad8f3ebe712f871b531d02e271/kontrastli.jpg" /> Photography: Seungjoon Song <img width="3392" height="5032" width_o="3392" height_o="5032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0126585e7b2748aecd3f57f96f402a08aa0b103067ef9b1a5701060be902fbf1/Seungjoon-Song.jpeg" data-mid="195175874" border="0" data-scale="69" 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https://metincanguzel.cargo.site/Mnemosyne-Cabinet-99-s-Summer Thu, 18 May 2023 21:20:33 +0000 metincan guzel https://metincanguzel.cargo.site/Mnemosyne-Cabinet-99-s-Summer MNEMOSYNE CABINET&nbsp;-99’S SUMMER- The name of Mnemosyne comes from the goddess of remembrance and memories from greek mythology. The project is based on a collection of memories of a certain home from artist’s childhood. It focuses explicitly on 1999 summer. The house is a Mediterranean one-story building in a big garden with orange trees, in Cyprus where he used to live. The work deals with the perception of memories, distortion of them, and how to replace the memories with other forms. The video consists of several performances. As the performances are an attempt to rebuild the house with his body, it explores intimate and political way to reconstruct a space. Each performance is dedicated to the specific parts of the house. The titles of the performances are derived and distorted from childhood memories reminding magical realism. The titles of the performances: -THE VINE TREES WHICH WERE CUT AFTER ONE SNAKE WAS FOUND IN THE GARDEN -THE PORCH WHICH WAS MELTED BY HOT LONG MIDDAYS -THE WINDOW WHERE I COULD SEE THE MOUNTAIN ONLY WHEN MY MOTHER WAS HOLDING ME UP -THE ATTIC WHICH WAS INVADED BY SNAKES AND MONKEYS-THE CORRIDOR WHICH WAS SHAPED BY BREEZE The video aims to evoke parallel reading of the conflict of the two governments in Cyprus. The body and space translations create imaginaries referring to a notion of home, displacement and fear of invasion.&nbsp;Some models from this house accompany the video. Some parts of models are the materials that are used in the performance as well as orange peels and sunlight of a melting midday. The text is edited from The Auto-Ethnographic Turn in Design partially <img width="3896" height="2508" width_o="3896" height_o="2508" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/10b70fa965f0a0f94f9ed68dbd65c5351c23cdeb8b71603f8877a78021e65695/duz3.jpg" data-mid="192816912" border="0" data-scale="70" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/10b70fa965f0a0f94f9ed68dbd65c5351c23cdeb8b71603f8877a78021e65695/duz3.jpg" /> <img width="4272" height="2856" width_o="4272" height_o="2856" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b607b8eaf56bd874753986ede7af0eab84404eb58456ebd880c95e590e4558ae/turunculu.jpg" data-mid="192816260" border="0" data-scale="70" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b607b8eaf56bd874753986ede7af0eab84404eb58456ebd880c95e590e4558ae/turunculu.jpg" /> <img width="1625" height="985" width_o="1625" height_o="985" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/57513f5c352a86400c417290dedddc6e5dad85235bec75e650de85f59796039b/metincan-still.001.jpeg" data-mid="179320850" border="0" data-scale="70" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/57513f5c352a86400c417290dedddc6e5dad85235bec75e650de85f59796039b/metincan-still.001.jpeg" /> <img width="3572" height="2291" width_o="3572" height_o="2291" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/43f86241fe46c4ebbbdf0d8dc86e680c08e37d637b0e61400f3533e568ddf352/turuncu-isikli2copy.jpg" data-mid="192815618" border="0" data-scale="70" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/43f86241fe46c4ebbbdf0d8dc86e680c08e37d637b0e61400f3533e568ddf352/turuncu-isikli2copy.jpg" /> https://metincanguzel.cargo.site/A-Bollard-Made-of-Bones Thu, 18 May 2023 21:20:32 +0000 metincan guzel https://metincanguzel.cargo.site/A-Bollard-Made-of-Bones A BOLLARD -MADE OF BONES- The work aims to illuminate the hidden agents of a little urban condition. It focuses on a nonhuman-centric relationship between three daily actors and creates a temporary, uncanny, mysterious scene. &nbsp; In 2019, The New York Times estimated that in Istanbul alone, a megacity of 15 million people, there are thought to be 130,000 dogs and 125,000 cats roaming free. The strayed animals in Istanbul streets are fed and cared based on a network of care and cultural traditions of feeding animals by the city inhabitants. While Istanbul's urbanization and modernization process excluded and outlawed many actors, cats as nonhuman agents are the lucky ones who earn their crucial part in the city's daily life. As another agent, concrete bollards on the roads are designed as regulating and controlling devices. The half sphere-shaped ones are the most common bollards, mainly made of concrete with heavy bases. These overlooked objects are primarily associated with rules, permanency, and sterilization of urban daily life. The other bollard' finds a forgotten space between two bollards and mimics the other urban elements around it. Even though the shape and the size of the bollard match with the other bollards, it is made of the leftover bones, which are taken by the butcher in the corner. The alien objects are placed on the pavement and, after a couple of hours, are finished by being eaten by the strayed cats and dogs on the streets. While it dissolves through the nonhuman actors and networks of the city, it questions the very hard materiality of the city.&nbsp; <img width="2328" height="1742" width_o="2328" height_o="1742" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/726fb7cc1f7241c92564fa623867f125b124c97e2ea2db3590e5f158885079a7/bollard01.jpg" data-mid="179225527" border="0" data-scale="70" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/726fb7cc1f7241c92564fa623867f125b124c97e2ea2db3590e5f158885079a7/bollard01.jpg" /> <img width="2006" height="1504" width_o="2006" height_o="1504" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/330fb2b8b7d01df657fbd8ce79597df714c08261672a4c62df622a7f2d1f58ae/bollard02.jpg" data-mid="179225528" border="0" data-scale="70" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/330fb2b8b7d01df657fbd8ce79597df714c08261672a4c62df622a7f2d1f58ae/bollard02.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1404" width_o="2500" height_o="1404" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fb32b5deccc92a31a6d08966d3e5939f5fc5a313b2c12a40e93414bb328c7d23/bollard03.jpg" data-mid="179225530" border="0" data-scale="70" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fb32b5deccc92a31a6d08966d3e5939f5fc5a313b2c12a40e93414bb328c7d23/bollard03.jpg" />