istanbul
Istanbul Review -
Contemporary Magazine, 2002.
This is not the first time I am obliging myself to write an overview of this gloriously beautiful and ugly town Istanbul. Given my pathological despair and well-know penchant to dig out the negative, to scratch the surface glimmer, to seek the sinister and the unethical, it should come as no [...]
Text for Pedestrian Exhibitions I
Pedestrian Exhibitions I, Catalog, 2002
I want to start with a loose connection. The pedestrian exhibition project seems to me an uncanny reminder of the late 19th century Istanbul exhibitions. I am interested in the interplay of two notions; first, the emergence of painting in the European tradition in the Ottoman State and second, the untenable [...]
Interview with Gabriel Lester
We did this interview with Gabriel Lester after his show at Platform. I don’t remember it was published.
Vasif Kortun: Gabriel, let’s start with the simple question: The idea of fragmentation throughout your work.
Gabriel Lester: Good question. It is true that most (if not all) of my work has at least this quality? Namely the fragmentation [...]