18 Mar Reflections and Movements

From March 18 to March 31, 2016, the K2 Contemporary Art Center will present for the first time in Turkey the exhibition Reflections and Movements. This exhibition proposes a meditation on the notions of being rooted and uprooted. For the occasion, four artists have made a careful selection of recent film and video works, all dealing in different ways with the questions of identity, sedentariness and migration. In the world where more and more people move, female artists from four different corners of the world propose their vision of the subject. Lyubov Matyunina, Russian, living in Netherlands explore with much humor and sensitivity the theme of uprooting and immigration. Moira Tierney, Irish, living in the United States propose in “Are We There Yet?” a poetical as much as political journey to the border of Ireland. Marguerite Lantz’s art deals with dichotomies artificial-natural, movement-inertia. Elena Tyushova’s works, on the border of video-art and experimental film, meditate on the questions of displacement and solitariness.

 This exhibition presents a selection of works (shot on film or digitally) rich with spiritual and environmental references. Spatially organized as a conversation between different art pieces it provides the viewer an opportunity to participate in this visual communication that unites geographical areas from various corners of the world.

Artists: Marguerite Lantz, Lyubov Matynina, Moira Tierney, Elena Tyushova.

Information about the artists:

Marguerite Lantz is a French artist. Her work has been exhibited worldwide. One of her latest works “La Perle” were presented at the International film festival in Rotterdam in 2015 and in Saint-Petersburg at The Experimental Film Festival Ecarta Motion Pictures.

Lyubov Matynina has graduated from Gerrit Rietveld Academy. Her upcoming exhibition will take place in Istanbul, Post-Peace, Akbank Sanat, 1 March. Her works has been presented in Jakarta, Netherlands, Germany, Slovenia and Russia. In 2014, Lyubov Matynina has received a TENT public choice award 2014, with film “Who can be happy and free?”.

Moira Tierney is a filmmaker. In 1998, she was granted a Fulbright Scholarship to Anthology Film Archives in New York. In 2000, Moira Tierney’s films were part of the American Avant-garde cinema program in Moscow. Her American Dreams #3 was listed as one of the best films of the year 2003 by the 5th Annual Village Voice Film Critics Poll. Moira Tierney shoots in super-8 or 16mm films. Here are some of her best known movies: American Dreams 1-4, Are We There Yet?, Liberty Kids, Radio Haiti (2001), You Can’t Keep a Good Snake Down (2000).

Elena Tyushova is a filmmaker and curator. Her short films have been screened at many festivals. In 2015 she has organized a retrospective of Swedish film maker Gunvor Nelson at Center George Pompidou in Paris. She is also teaching film aesthetics at The University of Paris 8.

Curators: Ali Kemal Ertem ve Elena Tyushova