This open proposition aimed to gather a multiplicity of perspectives, sometimes general, sometimes focused around a specific issue or around a subject already hard to define and mobile: contemporary art, or rather artists of our days. The idea here was to create a forum, a multiple voice, a multiple entry program that seeks to offer a new perspective on the young Turkish creation of the past years, with emphasis on its diversity: hills in a picture, a picture in hills, the symbolism of alternation, a sliding and bouncing sketch. 

An important place was given to the imposing image in the reality of contemporary art; whether produced with a photo camera, a video camera or a computer, analog or digital, the image here was a field of work, both a material and a writing mode, a place of confrontations between the archive, references to the real and a capacity for formal information. Hence, it was not a question of new images, or new technologies, but of works of artists who used various forms of images, stable or mobile, alone or associated to other elements. Such a step, situated in the Turkish art context, still and always dominated by painting and a certain representation of hills, is still fragile and unfortunately little recognized by the local public.

From these works emanated also and in a more general way, a will to break free, and probably unique in Turkey a fascination towards yet a resistance to their own references for the West. This could look like a social, or perhaps a political will to place oneself from the inside to the outside and vice versa, in relation to entities at times universal but also culturally specific, such as the man, the woman, the man and the woman, the family, the boundaries...etc. In addition, these artists indirectly brought up, at a favourable moment (the 6th Biennial of Istanbul) and in completely singular and personal ways, the famous question of the globalization of art. 

All these came out at times in nostalgic, ironic, contemplative, critical, poetic ways, ultimately becoming a process not only questioning the original space, but dealing instead with a space in between, ideally a space in dialogue… 
 

Claire-Lyse Bucci