Nuri Bilge Ceylan's 'Elsewhere' exhibition ends on February 18
The first photography exhibition at Istanbul Modern's new museum building, designed by Renzo Piano, titled "Nuri Bilge Ceylan: Elsewhere," concludes on February 18. Sponsored by Burgan Bank, the exhibition consists of 22 large-scale portraits that Ceylan captured in various geographies around the world, including India, Georgia, China, Morocco, and Russia, as well as Turkey.
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The Istanbul Modern Photography Gallery is hosting photographs by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, one of the most original directors of contemporary cinema, which are meeting the audience for the first time.
Ceylan stimulates the viewer's imagination with works that carry the powerful cinematic language of his films into his photography. The "Elsewhere" exhibition also makes reference to the characters frequently encountered in the director's films who desire to be "somewhere else."
The relationships characters establish with the nature and built environment they inhabit, the carefully constructed photographic atmosphere, the use of dramatic light, the dialogue between colors, understated emotions, and calm facial expressions stand out as typical characteristics of the photographs in the exhibition.
POINTS TO THE DEPTH OF HUMAN EXPERIENCES
While Ceylan's works suggest that our lives cannot be evaluated separately from the geography we inhabit, they also point to the depth of the human experiences that connect us to one another.
Making the life struggles, loneliness, occasional boredom, and melancholy of people visible, Ceylan focuses on common emotions rather than the differences between geographies. The unique formal language we see in Ceylan's photographs stimulates our imagination, allowing us to feel a sense of closeness to geographies and people we have not visited or experienced.
The exhibition of Nuri Bilge Ceylan, whose works such as "Trams in Beyoğlu" and "A Winter Evening in Istanbul" from 2004 are included in the Istanbul Modern Photography Collection, is curated by Demet Yıldız Dinçer, Istanbul Modern's Photography Curator and Department Manager.