The Grand Opening
Produced for an exhibition Survival Kit which took place in İstanbul in the framework of 15. istanbul Biennial and in Yekaterinburg in the framework of the Ural Industrial Biennial, t. watercolor, gouache, ink and gold on paper, handmade frame, s. 28 x 50 cm x2
https://survival-kit.art https://survival-kit.art/files/sk_brochure_en.pdf
Cansu Çakar’s The Grand Opening focuses on the “detail” as a survival technique for self-censorship that can distract the viewer, taking them away from the whole. Generally when the distracting whole is vanished, we can find the way that leads to the core. Exhibited work depicts a picture of a bridge opening ceremony, hidden in the figures of ribbons. Showing the whole composition in Yekaterinburg, and only the ribbon details in Istanbul, Çakar will link these two cities to each other.
It was even hidden in a frame, stepped on int the opening, wrapped, twisted and suffocated but was never united.
