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Gern is pleased to present DUST, Bora Akinciturk’s second solo exhibition in New York. The show brings together new paintings, a site-specific installation, and DIAL TONE, a publication made for the exhibition.
The exhibition starts with Istanbul, and with the buildings that have been disappearing from it. After the 1999 İzmit earthquake, safer housing became an urgent need across Turkey. In 2012, a new urban transformation law pushed that urgency into a fast-moving cycle of demolition and rebuilding. On Istanbul’s Asian side, in neighborhoods such as Suadiye, Caddebostan, and Göztepe, many modest apartment buildings from the 1960s through the 1990s were replaced by taller, denser developments. What was presented as earthquake preparation also became a real-estate machine.
Akinciturk reflects on the loss of those buildings, memory, and ways of living, which changed drastically with how technology progressed and systems evolved. In the large plaid paintings, each number refers to an old…
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Gern is pleased to present DUST, Bora Akinciturk’s second solo exhibition in New York. The show brings together new paintings, a site-specific installation, and DIAL TONE, a publication made for the exhibition.
The exhibition starts with Istanbul, and with the buildings that have been disappearing from it. After the 1999 İzmit earthquake, safer housing became an urgent need across Turkey. In 2012, a new urban transformation law pushed that urgency into a fast-moving cycle of demolition and rebuilding. On Istanbul’s Asian side, in neighborhoods such as Suadiye, Caddebostan, and Göztepe, many modest apartment buildings from the 1960s through the 1990s were replaced by taller, denser developments. What was presented as earthquake preparation also became a real-estate machine.
Akinciturk reflects on the loss of those buildings, memory, and ways of living, which changed drastically with how technology progressed and systems evolved. In the large plaid paintings, each number refers to an old…
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