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suturo.com is a new dynamic and interactive website that reacts uniquely to each visitor as they navigate the site, allowing for exploration that fosters new formal and conceptual perspectives between the art, the poems, and the viewers.

Project Team
Steven Wolkoff
Alexandra Wiesenfeld
Eugene Ahn

Website
VAMA Creative

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Artists and Poems: Istanbul 2022

It just happened:
I have in this city neither a ladylove
Who could console me,
Nor acquaintances.
If I have heard a train horn, two brooks of tears
Flow at once
From my eyes.
Garibim;
Ne bir güzel var avutacak gönlümü,
Bu şehirde,
Ne de bir tanıdık cehre;
Bir tren sesi duymaya göreyim,
İki gözüm
İki çeşme.

Artwork
Train Sound 2021
70 x 55 cm
Acrylic on canvas
Hülya Küpcuoglu @hulyakupcuoglu

Poem
Train Horn / Tren Sesi
Orhan Veli

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Artists and Poems: Istanbul 2022

Artists

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

About Artists and Poems: Istanbul 2022

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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