Concrete, Animal, Sea

10 - 16 April 2023
Lara, Falezler / ANTALYA

“Concrete, Animal, Sea”, which is the second exhibition of an art project as a gesture of settling on the shore, came up with a new reading of the coastline that circulates the city with free flowing connections. The project was placed in a space setup to the extent that the cliffs allow access to the shore slightly above sea level. Thus, the coast was moved beyond being a landscape or its daily use, and became a common space that is shared through art. The shore of the artists revealed works that spoke with the hardness of the stones and produced a new form of dialogue through it. The viewer, on the other hand, took a curious gaze that explored this new dialogue integrated to their daily use of the beach.

Thinking about the rocks forming space creates a new breaking field at the interface offered by the shore. The existence of the cliffs and the sea produces a form of becoming in which the waves are knotted and resolved again in the indefinite follow-up of the flow and interruptions. Reeds, rock groves, capers and different plants find their way into a place like no other coastal gesture before. In the component of the land and water environment, a dual narrative structure is formed, with one side facing the city and the other facing the sea. One of the new ways the coastal formations unique to Antalya establish with the city is building a unique ecosystem hosted by human and non-human species.

“Concrete, Animal, Sea” Project Location
Photo by Kemal Tizgöl

Kıyı Project

Kıyı Project embodies a series of activities that the artists, who somehow coincided with Antalya, plan to realize in different parts of the coast in the city. While the project aims to increase the interaction of artists in the city as an independent, peripheral and collective formation, it also wishes to remind nature again as an alternative space to the art practice stuck in the digital environment during the pandemic. The city's reluctance to even establish a peripheral connection to the problem of centralization of art, the inadequate number of art galleries and the limited communication that the few existing contemporary spaces have with the artists in the city has been instrumental in carrying the project on the shore as a place of existence/non-existence. Planning to experience the different coastal topographies of Antalya spatially, Kıyı Project wishes to develop ways of thinking about alternative routes of settlement on the coast through an art project. In this context, the series that set off with three different exhibition projects, the first one has been "Şehrin Altı” (Under the City), and it has met its audience on the Konyaaltı beach in June 2021.

This page is published on 19 January 2023.