The “Life Lab” exhibition, curated by our graduate Elif Gül Tirben (VAVCD, 2010) and including alumni artists Berke Soyuer (VAVCD, 2011) and Elif Süsler (VAVCD, 2009) opens at the Sanatorium Gallery on January 31st.
Venue: Sanatorium Gallery
Address: Asmalı Mescit Cad.No 32A Tünel Beyoğlu
Elif Süsler
Artists featured in the joint exhibition “Life Lab” to be held at the Sanatorium Gallery between January 31st and March 2nd are Cins, John Conway, Bora Başkan, Yunus Emre Erdoğan, Ece Gökalp, Sinem Mucur, Can Pekdemir, Berke Soyuer and Elif Süsler. The curator of the exhibition is Elif Gül Tirben.
Berke Soyuer
The inspiration for the exhibition is French sociologist Bruno Latour’s study “Lab Life” conducted in a laboratory doing biological research on animals. The study depicts the social aspect of the production of scientific knowledge, its openness to error, therefore criticism, and the communication issues between the “scientific clan” generating the knowledge and the people outside the clan.
Contrary to lab life, which defines scientific production and whose existence becomes manifest as a phenomenon that is separate from science or life as studied by science, the Life Lab exhibition is composed of a series of visual experimentations that deliberately disrupts (scientific) reality and the affinity with which we perceive our surroundings, with subjects ranging from anatomy to the footsteps on the Moon, quantum theory, and new life forms. Being consistent with scientific fields, these experiments explore the amazing possibilities of life through visual representation, and suggest rethinking them as a whole, liberated from all categories and scientific processes.
Participating artists:
Cins
John Conway
Bora Başkan
Yunus Emre Erdoğan
Ece Gökalp
Sinem Mucur
Can Pekdemir
Berke Soyuer
Elif Süsler