Bringing together works by 38 artists, Grief and Pleasure focuses on all bodily mechanisms that enable contradictory states such as grief and pleasure to co-exist, along with emotions such as happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, disgust, contempt and shame. The exhibition features works produced in a range of media including painting, photography, sculpture, video and installation.
Dealing with the limits and subtleties of the contemporary human body, its role within the complex web of past and present as well as its ethical and social parameters, the exhibition holds a mirror to the changing values and norms in society through the human vessel.
Participating Artists: Ali İbrahim Öcal, Alpin Arda Bağcık, Annemarie Busschers, Asger Carlsen, Ayça Telgeren, Begüm Yamanlar, Bill Viola, Bruce Nauman, CANAN, Catherine Opie, Cindy Sherman, Elif Uras, Erdoğan Zümrütoğlu, Erwin Wurm, filip custic, Francesco Albano, Hicham Benohoud, Iiu Susiraja, İ. Ata Doğruel, İnci Eviner, John Coplans, Julian Opie, Lea Colombo, Mamali Shafahi, Mustafa Ata, Onur Mansız, Ömer Uluç, Pınar Yolaçan, Robert Mapplethorpe, Saelia Aparicio, Shadi Ghadirian, Sibel Horada, Theo Triantafyllidis, Universal Everything, Vito Acconci, Willi Dorner, Yüksel Arslan, Zhang Huan.
