Beyond The Apparent

“Beyond the Apparent” exhibition was regarded as an opportunity reflect upon the extent to which the works of art would overcome their own histories and the meaning they held/will hold for individuals hermeneutically interpreting the works and their history. The exhibition was also conceived as an exercise to produce new prejudices and questions against our existing prejudices that function as biases forcing us to open up to the world. In a sense, “Beyond the Apparent” demonstrates that there is always the possibility of producing another view on the unchangeability of the prejudice by historicizing –or not historicizing– the collection and the works comprising it with the value judgments of the present.  

“Beyond the Apparent” was largely based on the selection from the works in included in the “1950?2000” exhibition held seventeen years ago.  Zeynep Yasa Yaman both curated and wrote the catalogue of the exhibition, which includes 61 works by 36 artists who were born between 1905 and 1960.