Is a story shaped by the choices presented to us, or does the storyteller also have a say? Based on Vera Molnár's art practice that integrates algorithms and mathematics, the workshop participants try to construct a story from the cards distributed to them. Participants will try to build their unique stories by making interventions to the cards sorted by chance. Even though the starting point is the same, it is experienced how different subjectivities and the chance factor can take the story to different points.
Note: Participants are kindly requested to send a photograph or drawing they have taken, created, or selected to ogrenme@peramuzesi.org.tr prior to the workshop.
Instructor: Ekin Can Göksoy
Capacity: 15 people
Duration: 90 minutes
Fee per workshop: 350 TL
The event will take place at the Pera Museum (face-to-face).
About Ekin Can Göksoy
He is a historian, writer and storyteller. In 2014, his story book Münhal and in 2016 his novel Epope Tatavla were published by İletişim Publications. Since 2017, he has been organising storytelling performances in Istanbul and San Francisco as part of Artship Foundation. In 2018, he opened his first exhibition titled Bir Mucize İhtimali (A Miracle of Possibility) with Larissa Araz at poşe. In 2020, he was a writer-in-residence at Camargo Foundation as part of Be Mobile Create Together and co-directed Garp Sessions, a research programme bringing together artists and thinkers.
1638, the year Louis XIV was born –his second name, Dieudonné, alluding to his God-given status– saw the diffusion of a cult of maternity encouraged by the very devout Anne of Austria, in thanks for the miracle by which she had given birth to an heir to the French throne. Simon François de Tours (1606-1671) painted the Queen in the guise of the Virgin Mary, and the young Louis XIV as the infant Jesus, in the allegorical portrait now in the Bishop’s Palace at Sens.
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.
Based on similar examples by the European painters in various collections, this work is one of the portraits of Mihrimah Sultan, who was depicted rather often in the 16th century.
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: 300 TL
Discounted: 150 TL
Groups: 200 TL (minimum 10 people)
