Finissage Yesterday - guided tour and movie screening

18.01 - Finissage Yesterday (when there were no jokes left to tell)

Welcome next week Saturday for the closing event (2-6 pm) of Yesterday (when there were no jokes left to tell). On the penultimate day of the exhibition, you can join a free guided tour (2 pm) by curator Koi Persyn in the presence of artist Kamil Bouzoubaa-Grivel. Afterwards, we will screen the short film 'Desire Lines /Tarot & Chess/' by Ergin Çavuşoğlu (co-produced by Jester) at 4 pm, do tarot readings and provide Limburg flan! Welcome to admire this exhibition for the last two weeks, from Wednesday to Sunday, between 1 and 6.

Guided tour: 14:00

Film screening: 16:00

About “Desire Lines /Tarot & Chess/”:

Desire Lines /Tarot & Chess/ portrays universal patterns of human behaviour and their relationship to past, present and future, looking through the prism of literary expressions articulated by Italo Calvino in his book ‘The Castle of Crossed Destinies’ (1973). In Calvino’s book “through the sequence of the pictures stories are told, which the written word tries to reconstruct and interpret.” In Desire Lines /Tarot & Chess/ the stories are told by sequences of moving images and fragmented speech. The interpretations of the tarot cards allude to classic tales such as Faust and Shakespearean narratives such as Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear.

About Ergin Çavuşoğlu:

Ergin Çavuşoğlu (Bulgaria) studied at the National School of Fine Arts, Sofia, Marmara University (BA) Istanbul, Goldsmiths College (MA) London, and the University of Portsmouth (Ph.D). Çavuşoğlu co-represented Turkey at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003. He was shortlisted for the Beck’s Futures Prize in 2004 and for Artes Mundi 4 in 2010.

Central to Çavuşoğlu’s artworks are concepts that explore ideas of place, space, liminality, mobility and the conditions of cultural production, which he has been examining in classical, modern and contemporary guises through video and sound installations, anamorphic drawings and sculptures. The contextual framework of his practice in its broader capacity examines socio-cultural terrains and human geographies.  Çavuşoğlu’s video installation works engage thematically with the in-between spaces of urban environments: airports, waterways, marketplaces, historical sites and national borders. These are also mobile spaces, where ships, currencies, people, and time pass in disengagement with their geographical coordinates. The concepts of time and liminality are central to his practice on a multitude of levels. Çavuşoğlu alludes to these themes in a reflective way positioning them within geo-political, philosophical, historical and literary contexts. The spatiality and the immersive qualities of his installations further contribute to the manifestation of these concepts in the ways the viewer experiences them.
Furthermore, the pattern of literary references in his narrative film and video works unfold a series of moral parables that have a notional relevance to contemporary art and the production of culture.  Çavuşoğlu frequently works with fiction and non-fiction texts in the development of my projects in various forms and contexts. Sometimes he produces cinematographic and theatrical adaptations from these writings, and often texts institute concepts and act as forms of conceptual clarifications. Moreover, the acknowledgement of art in his broader practice as a scholarly activity often presents a multi-layered experience of its systems today and their appreciation, or indeed critique.