Double Portrait Exhibition Catalogue by Cemre Yeşil & Ahu Antmen

Cemre Yeşil’s new work Double Portrait is a reverie in the form of images and words. A communication of her artistic calling through photography and an archive of her personal journey of fear of loss; the joy of love and birth; and a questioning of the psychological aspect of photography. The exhibition invites the viewer to remember what it means to be held, and experiencing what it means to hold regardless of cultural norms related to gender. Double Portrait records 9 years of research into a real-time system of observation on the mother-child relationship through different lenses.

 

Ahu Antmen remarks about the exhibition: “Double Portrait is full of the visual variants that raise questions related to our selves and identities through our own personal archives. Who are we? When do we become who we are held? and natural state of expression. This exhibition is a cartography. The unfolding process towards motherhood. A visual response to the unimaginable death of everyone's mother.

 

Double Portrait speaks of something we all know about emotionally, but can't articulate all that easily. We know it when we see it. We know it when we feel it. We know it when it is absent. We carry it when we have been held and we carry it when we have not been held.

 

 

Published by Milli Reasürans Art Gallery, March 2021

23,5 x 31,5 cm

60 pages including a gatefold + Double Portrait Sticker Set

ISBN 978-605-23911-4-3
 

Essay by: Ahu Antmen

Design: Cemre Yeşil
English - Turkish Translation: Orhan Cem Çetin

Installation Photographs: Engin Gerçek

 

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Cemre Yeşil’in Double Portrait işi imgelerde ve sözcüklerde a great imagination that has found its way into the world. The joy and sorrow that come with love and birth; the fear of loss, identity, childhood, motherhood, memory; the portrait tradition and the questioning of the psychological and artistic aspects of photography. A personal journey. The exhibition invites us to search for and remember the meaning of embracing and being embraced, independently of societal norms about gender. Double Portrait, mother-child The difference between the two has turned into a real-time observation system through lenses, a 9-year research sürecinin kaydı.

 

Ahu Antmen says the following about this exhibition: şunları söylüüyor: “Double Portrait through our own personal archivesşisel arivlerimiz aratılığıyla It is full of visual variations that raise questions about our self and identity. Who are we? When do we think about who we are? How did they hold us, embrace us? Can photographs really tell our story? Images of the mother-child relationship will attract attention in art, pop culture and daily life. In a culture that was measured and criticized, Cemre Yeşil’s attempt to reconsider the cultural elements of this intimate The squares reach a much purer, rawer, more natural expression. This exhibition is an atlas of the complexity and layering of the mother-child relationship. Everyone has lost their mother or will lose her, remembering or even imagining it. A visual response to the smile that she didn't want.Double Portraitis about the feelings we all emotionally recognize about being hugged, but which are difficult to describe; the feelings we understand when we have them, the feelings we comprehend when we feel them.

 

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Double Portraitis about the feelings we all emotionally recognize about being hugged, but which we understand when we have them, the feelings we comprehend when we feel them.

Double Portraitis about the feelings we all emotionally recognize about being hugged, but which we understand when we have them, the feelings we comprehend when we feel them.

Double Portraitis about the feelings we all emotionally recognize about being hugged, but which something we did, something we noticed; something we carried to someone when they held us, and something we carried to them when they didn't hold us. hâl.

 

 

National Reinsurance Art Gallery, March 2021

23.5 x 31.5 cm

60 pages + Double Portrait Sticker Set

ISBN 978-605-23911-4-3
 

Text: Ahu Antmen

Design: Cemre Yeşil
English - Turkish Translation: Orhan Cem Çetin

Exhibition Photographs: Engin Gerçek