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Visual Communication Design’s End of Year Exhibition “OCULUS II: The World Inside, Istanbul Outside” opened

Kadir Has University Faculty of Communication, Department of Visual Communication Design year-end exhibition “OCULUS II: The World Inside, Istanbul Outside” opened to visitors on May 31st at Haliç Sanat Fener Ev 1.

Organized in collaboration with IBB Culture and IBB Heritage, curated by Dr. İpek Yeğinsü and academic advisor by Dr. Balca Arda, the exhibition brings together the works of Kadir Has University Visual Communication Design students that reveal the universality of the experience of being human based on Istanbul.

In the exhibition consisting of three sub-themes, “The World Inside” focuses on the inner lives of the individual, while “Istanbul Outside” traces the social realities that become visible through urban aesthetics. “Online-Offline” takes a critical look at the cultural effects of digital technologies.

At the special opening event of the exhibition on June 2, a video mapping show prepared by the students will be held with the technical sponsorship of DECOL and Provideo.

“OCULUS II: The World Inside, Istanbul Outside” exhibition can be seen at Haliç Sanat Fener Ev 1 until July 31, every day except Mondays between 10.00-18.00.

Address: Yavuz Sultan Selim, Abdülezelpaşa Cd. No: 4, 34083 Fatih/Istanbul

OCULUS II: İçerideki Dünya, Dışarıdaki İstanbul

31 Mayıs 2023 – 31 Temmuz 2023

Sergi Künyesi

Katılımcılar: Anıl Beran Demir, Ayla Karamustafa, Ayşe Ecem Gözütok, Berkay Telli, Cemre Akçal, Cemre Öztürk, Doğu Su Dönmez, Ece Odabaşıoğlu, Elifnur Selbük, Elvan Özgür, Emine Nur Mutlu, Ertekin Erdin, Hibah Ambreen, Ilsa Khan, İdil Avan, Kenana Albazal, Khudeeja Dawar, Menna Aly, Michela Palma, Muneeb Ahmad, Neda Süleyman, Nur Banu Büyükyılmaz, Omar Abdelghaffar, Özgün Göbel, Rawand Naser Aldeen, Rozerin Aytaş, Selene Nisan Serdaroğlu, Sena Ongun, Sena Elif Özkan, Simge Ceren Aydın, Sude Ergin, Sumaya Hayatullah, Taha Sertaç Gezer, Veli Emir Kahraman, Vania Khan

Sergi Ekibi: Ayla Karamustafa, Aylin Aslı Altınkılıç, Berranur Özbey, Bora Yalçın, Cemre Öztürk, Dalal Galip, Devin Dereli, Ege Erkorkmaz, Elifnur Selbük, Filiznur Kondakçı, Gülce Beyter, Haya Chahine, İdil Avan, Khudeeja Dawar, Maria Fernanda de Andre Gomes, Melike Acar, Menna Mourad Mohamed, Meshari Fayad, Mine Güzel, Muhammad Anas Siddiqui, Muhammet Niyazi Kuriş, Niklas Ehret, Ozan Alp Küçükiş, Raghad Mohammed Qasem, Rana Karayılan, Rawand Naser Aldeen, Rozerin Aytaş, Selene Nisan Serdaroğlu, Selin Erdoğan, Senanur Soylu, Serin Bademsoy, Sude Ergin, Sude İnci, Sumaya Hayatullah, Sümeyye Akdere, Veli Emir Kahraman, Yağmur Baydır, Zaid Ahmad Jan, Zeynep Türk

Küratör: Dr. İpek Yeğinsü

Akademik Danışman: Dr. Balca Arda

Sergi Komitesi: Dr. Balca Arda, Bilal Savaş, Doruk Kumkumoğlu, Dr. İpek Yeğinsü, Mert
Tanır, Sinan Göksel

Asistanlar: Melike Koçak, Yunus Emre Öztaş, Zeynep Uçar

Fotoğraf Künyeleri

  1. Muneeb Ahmad, Michela Palma “Kalabalıktaki Fısıltılar”, video still
  2. Sena Elif Özkan, “Life Sim Lite”, video still
  3. Selene Nisan Serdaroğlu, “Maslak ve Ötesi”, fotoğraf
  4. Ayla Karamustafa, “İçimdeki Virüs”, fotoğraf
  5. Ece Odabaşıoğlu, “Fikirtepe”, Fotoğraf

Curation Text

Living in a city like Istanbul has both great rewards and great costs. While our perceptual universes are constantly enriched with thousands of colors, sounds and textures, they struggle with the chaos created by the density of stimuli. The city, which is a laboratory for the meeting and solidarity of multiple identities, is also an environment where the individual can easily get lost in his or her own solitude. In fact, the city, with all the inspiring and challenging aspects of its “personality”, resembles each of its inhabitants a little bit, and each of us is a little bit like the city we live in.

“OCULUS II” brings together works produced in different techniques that reveal the universality of the experience of being human based on Istanbul. It presents the sensibilities and quests of the young generation in a fiction that rapidly shifts between these two scales while dissolving the boundaries between individual and society, past and future, inside and outside. The multiple layers of meaning of the exhibition space and its relationship with its surroundings include the city; thus, the viewer’s encounters with their own inner world through the works in the exhibition open up brand new psychogeographical possibilities.

Composed of three sub-themes, “The World Inside” focuses on the inner lives of the individual, while “Istanbul Outside” traces the social realities that become visible through urban aesthetics. “Online-Offline” takes a critical look at the cultural effects of digital technologies.

Silk Yeginsu