Etel Adnan: Words in Exile

Director: Vouvoula Skoura
Greece, , 2008, 52', b&w, color
Greek with Turkish subtitles

The film reconstructs through an array of visual fragments, a multiplicity of languages, of peoples and their identities, the unique portrait of the poet and painter Etel Adnan. The film is based on Adnan’s correspondence with Professor of History Fawwaz Traboulsi and on fragments of her conversations with Vouvoula Skoura as recorded in Paris and the Greek island of Skopelos. Etel Adnan has lived through and experienced the troubles of the 20th century in Europe and the Middle East. Her origins caught between the two worlds, she attempts to comprehend their differences and is able to synthesize them under her deeply humanistic gaze. At the same time, she retraces those minute Greek instances in memories of her mother and recollections of her father in a universe of tales and poetry composed in Arabic.

Etel Adnan: Words in Exile

Etel Adnan: Words in Exile

Gavin Bryars and Etel Adnan: Five Senses for One Death

Gavin Bryars and Etel Adnan: Five Senses for One Death

I See Infinite Distance Between Any Point And Another

I See Infinite Distance Between Any Point And Another

In Conversation with Artist Etel Adnan

In Conversation with Artist Etel Adnan

Explore the Museum with the Little Yellow Circle!

Explore the Museum with the Little Yellow Circle!

Published as part of Pera Learning programs, “The Little Yellow Circle (Küçük Sarı Daire)” is a children’s book written by Tania Bahar and illustrated by Marina Rico, offering children and adults to a novel learning experience where they can share and discover together.

Giorgio de Chirico

Giorgio de Chirico

Giorgio de Chirico was born on July 10, 1888, in Volos, Greece, to an Italian family. His mother, Gemma Cervetto, was from a family of Genoa origin, but most likely she was born in Izmir. His father, Evaristo, was born on June 21, 1841 in the Büyükdere district of Istanbul.

Good News from the Skies

Good News from the Skies

Inspired by the exhibition And Now the Good News, which focusing on the relationship between mass media and art, we prepared horoscope readings based on the chapters of the exhibition. Using the popular astrological language inspired by the effects of the movements of celestial bodies on people, these readings with references to the works in the exhibition make fictional future predictions inspired by the horoscope columns that we read in the newspapers with the desire to receive good news about our day.