Talk
December 15, 2024 / 14:45
Amid an ongoing genocide in Gaza that has unfolded for over 14 months, Forensic Architecture’s founder and director, Eyal Weizman, joins Palestinian artist Basma Al-Sharif for a critical conversation. Together, they will explore the mechanics of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, settler colonialism, and military occupation through interdisciplinary lenses.
How can the Gaza Strip’s creation as an "open-air prison" and its subsequent destruction by Israel be interpreted in architectural and artistic terms? Where do the works of Forensic Architecture, with their meticulous objectification of facts, intersect with the evocative abstraction in art? Does framing Gaza as an exceptional and unjust case risk obscuring the lived realities of its multifaceted population? And how can the visualization of violence, through two distinct practices, contribute to imagining liberation and hope beyond the images of annihilation?
The artist from Gaza, Basma Al-Sharif, and Eyal Weizman, who has built a compelling evidentiary archive of genocide with his groundbreaking team, will reflect on these pressing questions.
The event will take place at the Pera Museum Auditorium as part of the Which Human Rights? Film Festival. Free admissions. The event will be held in English with simultaneous Turkish interpretation. Limited space, drop-in, no reservations.
When the Royal Academy of Arts offered Stephen Chambers the opportunity to produce new work for a focused exhibition in the Weston Rooms of the Main Galleries, Chambers turned to print and the possibilities it offered.
We, by which I mean some of my classmates and I, knew about Paula Rego. I’ll have to admit, I didn’t know where Rego was from or even where in Europe Portugal was. I thought she was English. Let me tell you how I first heard the very un-English sounding name “Paula Rego”
Mersad Berber (1940-2012), is one of the greatest and the most significant representatives of Bosnian-Herzegovinian and Yugoslav art in the second half of the 20th century. His vast body of expressive and unique works triggered the local art scene’s recognition into Europe as well as the international stage.
Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 - 19:00
Friday 10:00 - 22:00
Sunday 12:00 - 18:00
The museum is closed on Mondays.
On Wednesdays, the students can
visit the museum free of admission.
Full ticket: 200 TL
Discounted: 100 TL
Groups: 150 TL (minimum 10 people)
