Nueva Ola o Desencert (Short Version), 2004, 9 min 10 s, colour, sound
Courtesy of the artist
According to Joan Morey, the pillars on which this work is raised are the adoption of New Wave aesthetics and sound —specifically the sinister side of the movement and more exactly the band Bauhaus— and appropriation of the soundtrack and certain narrative styles from Jean-Luc Godard’s film Nouvelle Vague. The video is presented as a reflection on the hypertext mechanisms used in the two movements. Morey works as though he were a cultural engineer, a cryptic revisionist who takes some of the heritage of the two movements and makes it a complex scenario filled with meanings which are not always decipherable at first sight. The references to the recent past that both movements represent are not made from the asepsis of cultural history, as all the visual echoes, sounds, fragments of meaning or imagery the artist recovers are subjected to the strict code of ethics so characteristic of his work. Fetishistic clothing, acts of submission, emotions suppressed by asepsis, contained violence... all help establish connecting points between cultural manifestations which would otherwise seem irreconcilable.
This life-size portrait of a girl is a fine example of the British art of portrait painting in the early 18th century. The child is shown posing on a terrace, which is enclosed at the right foreground by the plinth of a pillar; the background is mainly filled with trees and shrubs.
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.
Berggren acquires the techniques of photography in Berlin and holds different jobs in various European cities before arriving in İstanbul. Initially en route to Marseille, he disembarks from his ship in 1866 and settles in İstanbul, where he is to spend the rest of his life.
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