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Galerist is pleased to announce Nil Yalter’s participation at the 6th Mardin Biennale. The biennial curated by Ali Akay, which will take place between May 10 - June 10, 2024, asks questions about how we can go beyond all the artistic, political and sociological problems we are experiencing today under the title “Further Away”.
"Diyarbakir / Mardin / Istanbul", a project Nil Yalter developed in collaboration with AÇEV, the Mother-Child Education Foundation that carries out projects in the field of education and social services was the product of a process that began in 2005. In such programs carried out by the foundation, the female population in the eastern part of Turkey of which in the early 2000s 19% still did not have reading and writing skills is the priority target audience. Yalter observed the process of these educational programs carried out for the benefit of these low-income families who did not have access to educational means. The artist recorded the life stories of people who participated in the educational program, carried out interviews with them, and blended these accounts with the cultural layers of a wide geographical area. In the images of the work, the phenomena of time and space, historical buildings and human portraits clash, merge, separate and thus, traces of cultural diversity from the Hittites to the Assyrians, from the Seljuk Empire to the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires are reinterpreted.
May 9, 2024