Brought to life by Felekşan Onar’s allegorical approach, and together with the artifacts that are in an ongoing migration from one place to the other since antiquity, the birds offer the visitors a multilayered narrative.
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Felekşan Onar’s series “Perched”, which was exhibited together with museum collections such as the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, Victoria & Albert Museum in London and the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, brings life to the main characters of the contemporary play, constituting one of the exhibition’s three pillars. This installation, which summons different artistic traditions, forms up around three main components: the glass sculptures created by Felekşan Onar, for whom the refugee crisis was one of the biggest issues in her time and region, and inspired by Louis de Bernières’ novel Birds without Wings, a selection from the museum collections in dialogue with the sculptures, a contemporary play referring to “The Birds” by Aristophanes, and a monograph expressing the inner journeys of the artist, and the curator Arie Amaya-Akkermans. Within the framework of the exhibition organized in parallel with the 17th İstanbul Biennial in September 2022, Sadberk Hanım Museum’s Archaeology Department is bringing together 21 contemporary sculptures by glass artist Felekşan Onar, from her series “Perched”, in addition to 5 new pieces crafted by the artist especially for this exhibition, and a meticulously-made selection from the collections of Sadberk Hanım Museum. Sadberk Hanım Museum, the first private museum in Turkey, is hosting a contemporary art exhibition for the first time in its history. THE TIMELESS STORY OF BIRDS “After Utopia: The Birds”, Sadberk Hanım Museum, installation views, photography: Ivan Erofeev.
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