Alterity Maybe

Eröffnung: 15. Mai 2010, 15.00 Uhr Galerie 5533, Unkapani - Istanbul, TR

Ausstellungsdauer: 16. Mai bis 19. Juni 2010

Stephanie Mold, a young Austrian artist who has spent several months in  Istanbul during four visits and is now an artist-in-residence at Garanti Platform, opens her exhibition at 5533 on May 15, 2010, with three works she created in Turkey.

As a modus operandi, Stephanie Mold exposes herself to different cultural contexts to research artistic, social, and biographical actions. During this process, she  interacts and initiates a dialog with others without predicting the outcome of the process. It could be said that she filters different elements encountered in places and situations in order to create portraits. Using the media of documentation, she varies and adapts the format depending on the nature of the project. In short, this exhibition deals with ’Otherness’ and the difficulties of understanding or merging into another culture.  As Dietrich Diederichsen said, "I have to perceive the ’other’ not in relation to myself as a romantic illustration of my adventure, as decorative significant friend or as a foe [...] rather, their ’other’ perspective should help me to leave the cage of individuality, of subjectivity and competition, at least for a while."News

In the videoloop, Alterity Maybe, she sings along with a musician who sits in front of her studio on Istiklal Caddesi everyday. Reflecting the tradition of the Atisma, a song duel, they sing together, share the same melody, but both stay inside their own perspective without responding to each other. Their relationship seems to be quite fragile and insecure.

Hello Gümüshane is a roadmovie about her trip as museum guard from Linz (Austria) to Gümüshane (Turkey) to meet the mayor of Gümüshane and to present him with a chair. She left the homogeneous world of the Museum of Modern Art in Linz to go on an adventure, but at the end of the process, she had to look at the place she left from a new perspective.

Also shown in this exhibition is the work entitled Meet me there, a series in which she uses drawing and embroidery to draw the viewer into an intimate dialogue. Using a strange alphabet, she reveals hidden stories about Istanbul.