Şekerbank, Açıkekran New Media Arts keeps on introducing contemporary art to Anatolia with the first exhibition of the year titled “Achieve V: Security and Insecurity”.

An Artistic View in Şekerbank Açıkekran to “Security” Problem of Modern Times …

Şekerbank Açıkekran New Media Arts Gallery welcomed art lovers in new year with the new video selection of Achieve series, "Security and Insecurity". In the exhibition handling the security and insecurity issues which modern people live in one another, artists examines this bilateral direction in terms of art and culture. With Prof. Dr. Ali Akay as the curator, the exhibition can be visited between 17 January and 29 February.

At the same time with gallery of Açıkekran in Teşvikiye, the video installation of Ferhat Özgür titled “Marble Dance” about the simit sellers of Istanbul will be on air in branches of Şekerbank in 6 cities covering Istanbul Feneryolu, Ankara Küçükesat and Çankaya, Kırklareli-Alpullu, Ordu, İzmir and Mardin within the context of “Achieve V: Security and Insecurity”.

The video installations, "Short Circuit” and “Things We Count” from Ahmet Öğüt, “Palestina” from Kosovo-Priština origin Alban Muja and “Upper Garden” and “Marble Dance” from Ferhat Özgür are on the show.

Security and Insecurity Circle Coming with Modernity
One of the artists representing our country in 2009 Venice Biennale, Ahmet Öğüt appears in the exhibition with two video works. In his video titled “Short Circuit” (2006), the artist underlines the tarmac as an indicator of modernity in societies and as bringing accidents with itself. In his second video titled “Things We Count", the artist makes the audience feel the conflicting aspects of such feelings as defence and offence; death and heroism with the images of military crafts.

Surprising Insecurity Created by the Name
In his video titled “Palestina”, Kosovo-Priština origin artist Alban Muja attracts attention to the fragile and surprising relation between name and image through the story of “admiration and naming”.

Security and Insecurity, a coded body issue
In his video titled “Upper Garden” filmed in Malta Island, Ferhat Özgür, an artist and a professor from Ankara examines the security and insecurity as a simultaneously coded body issue through the ceremony of artillery.

Dance of security against the insecurity of pain
The video of Ferhat Özgür titled “Marble Dance” which can be seen in Şekerbank branches in 6 cities, ironically visualises the world of simit sellers in Istanbul. While this work treats the situation of the two simit sellers miraculous dancing on the water as a scene from a comedy movie, it also refers to the tragicomedy of life itself.

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