Money Issue
Opening 26 January
27 January – 5 February
Curator: Nicoletta Daldanise
Artists: Elmas Deniz, Özgür Demirci
Money issue exhibition curated by Nicoletta Daldanise will take part at PASAJist between 26th January to 5th February 2011 with the participation of artists Elmas Deniz and Özgür Demirci. Exhibition mainly deals with poverty in general and working conditions of the artists.
Elmas Deniz recent work revolves around poverty in urban context and value systems that are distinct from the ones that are operating in our capitalist societies. She evaluates the issue of poverty from her social economical status through this political perspective. This exhibition mainly includes her text based works, aims to expose bare facts about poverty in global scale using the possibilities of text, basically quotes.
Özgür Demirci’s works based on his own experiences as an artist that focuses on the financial problems of the art system and its effects on the artist’s. His works ironically deals with the issue and consist of images about difficult working conditions and survival strategies of the artist’s while he also investigates artist’s relation with the art instutitutions.
