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Artists and Poems: Istanbul 2022

If luck you chase, you have not grown
enough for happiness to stay,
not even if you get your way.
 
If, what you lost, you still bemoan,
and grasp at tasks, and dash and dart,
you have not known true peace of heart.
 
But if no wishes are your own,
and you don't try to win the game,
and Lady Luck is just a name,
 
then tides of life won't reach your breast
and all your strife
and all your soul will rest.

						

					

				

	
	
				

				
				
Artwork

				Happiness Unlimited-Mutluluk Sirketi 2021

				10cm

				Mixed media-drawing cut paper

				Melike Kilic   @melikekillic

				
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Poem

				Happiness 

				
				
				Herman Hesse 
				

				
				

				

				
				
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Özge Enginöz, Özlem Zeytin, Aida Teimourlouie, Arzu Arda Kosar, Beyza Acar, Elvan Alpay, Engin Güneysu, Ferhat Özgür, Gülay Alpay, Gul Cagin, Hülya Küpcuoglu, Ilknur Demirkoparan, Mehmet Reşat Başar, Melike Kilic, Nilhan Sesalan, Pinar Derin Gencer, Yesim Agaoglu, Zafer Aracagök
	
			
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Curatorial statement

		
		

			
"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen."
			
Leonardo da Vinci
			
The tasks of the artists in Suturo Istanbul are two-fold: to search for a poem that
			echoes today's problems, specifically those of Istanbul and to powerfully
			juxtapose the words with their images. Moments described and unveiled in the
			chosen poems have clear affinities to today''s world even if written by a poet from
			the past. The atmosphere in the poems mirrors some uncanny similarities and
			concerns of these contemporary artists' works.
			
Gul Cagin
July 2022