Ivy.
Exhibition Catalogue. Edited by Başak Şenova.

With contributions by artists Heba Y. Amin, Omar Barquet, Burçak Bingöl, Yane Calovski, Ramesch Daha, Memed Erdener, Didem Erk, Fatoş İrwen, Zeynep Kayan, Azade Köker, Bronwyn Lace, Marcus Neustetter, Cristiana de Marchi, Larry Muñoz, Maarit Mustonen, Egle Oddo, Erkan Özgen, Bochra Taboubi, Cengiz Tekin, Simon Wachsmuth and Verena Miedl-Faißt/Nirual Kenabru.

With Texts by A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh/House of Taswir, Jonatan Habib Engqvist and curator/editor Başak Şenova.

Published by Zilberman Gallery, November 2022. Copies are available at the gallery.

From the Ivy Essay of House of Taswir

In botanical terms, we may think of “ivy” as a species of a quickly growing, evergreen plant that climbs or creeps along forest grounds, expanding surfaces and adding complexity to the environment. However, in the context of this exhibition, Ivy is not a metaphor; it is a method. It is a way of moving: crawling, spreading, popping up, growing rhizomatically, acting in situ. Proceeding in ways strictly inductive, materialist, object-related, practice-led, and situationist. Ivy is a method of thinking, of providing a hospitable environment to others, of escaping the bird’s-eye view, of showing up in unexpected places, of connecting living things—human and otherwise—art, objects, people, communities. Zilberman Gallery has focused on ways in which the artistic imagination subverts the invasive gaze of colonisers and other violent occupiers of sorts.

A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh / House of Taswir

Image:  Didem Erk, Divan-ı Şemsi Tebrizi (Şemseddin’in Hayali), 2022.