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Five Pieces of the Story

A photo from Berlin belonging to the archive of Seçil Yersel. What motivates
her photographic practice and approach is; ‘‘cities in becoming’’ with
their urban dynamics and qualities such as in-betweeness,
incompleteness, not having the final word on themselves. In a text
Yersel has written in 2004 “I’m trying to conjure up an account of the
situation, a plan: starting to have walks in the city and witnessing it
unfolding in front of me, revealing itself to and establishing contact
with the wanderer; to keep walking while maintaining the state of
witnessing; creating an interstitial space between the city of origin
and the city of arrival. Will the search for empty spaces emerge in the
oscillation between these two?’’ © seçil yersel — A photo from Berlin belonging to the archive of Seçil Yersel. What motivates her photographic practice and approach is; ‘‘cities in becoming’’ with their urban dynamics and qualities such as in-betweeness, incompleteness, not having the final word on themselves. In a text Yersel has written in 2004 “I’m trying to conjure up an account of the situation, a plan: starting to have walks in the city and witnessing it unfolding in front of me, revealing itself to and establishing contact with the wanderer; to keep walking while maintaining the state of witnessing; creating an interstitial space between the city of origin and the city of arrival. Will the search for empty spaces emerge in the oscillation between these two?’’ © seçil yersel

“Five Pieces of the Story” is part of a long term archive project with photos, texts, collected items through serendipity, sounds and video works by Seçil Yersel. Including this piece, 20 years of collection will be opened for different narrative constructions. Yersel is currently working on city memory, where and how it is kept and how the individual lives the constructed narrative “as if” she or he has built it. Yersel is in contact with the city of Berlin since 2004.

chaolog space

I work on the word "chaologue" that is a momentarily recognized uninterrupted conversation between city components (people, cars, houses, animals, trees, wind…) which exists anyway but makes sense to whoever wants to listen to it; how can we be a witness of the language that is constructed in the meantime we pass by?

after space

Since 2000 Seçil Yersel is documenting traces of life in places where either a long life was lived or in places such as "elder people's houses".

Eckdaten

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Seçil Yersel is an artist who has graduated from sociology and art departments. In her individual work, she works with and within photography since 1994; in search for third spaces and new perceptions of place making; she walks, collects, sounds and shares her productions in exhibitions, publications, in different occasions and moments. Yersel has been in the field of “writing” since 1994; she is documenting, recording and noting the daily life and also producing texts on exhibitions & performances.

Seçil Yersel is also the co-founder of the artist collective Oda Projesi (İstanbul) with Özge Açıkkol and Güneş Savaş. Since 2000 Oda Projesi situates itself specifically into the energetics of the city of İstanbul and its main objective has been to look at the rapid physical and social changes in the urban texture by creating alternative modes of space making and establishing links of solidarity through relationships.

Yersel is a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA)-Turkey.

Vita

Solo works in Group Exhibitions
2020 Kunst und Klima, Gastezimmer des Materials, Haus der Statistik, Berlin
2020 100 Jahre Stadt/Zeit/Kunst Schoeler exhibition, Berlin
2020 Openhaus ZK/U-Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik , Berlin
2019 Condition Room, Apartment Project, Berlin
2019 Openhaus ZKU, Berlin
2018 “Oda Projesi” exhibition at Ariel, İstanbul
2017 Anıkolik, Karga, İstanbul
2017 A room of our own, Ark Kültür, İstanbul
2016 Replaced, Rampa, İstanbul
2016 Space Antelope Space Air, Ariel Art, İstanbul
2015 Contemporary Istanbul exhibition, Halka Sanat Projesi, İstanbul
2014 "Stay With Me", group exhibition, Apartment Project, Berlin-Germany
2014 Sahibinden Satılık Sayfiye, Depo, İstanbul
2014 “The Rebirth of the Turkish Delight: Cool İstanbul”, Platform, Munich Germany
2008 Nova Paranoia, Artneuland e.V. Berlin-Germany
2004 Somebody Else’s Problem, Bilsar space, Beyoglu- Istanbul, Turkey
2004 Along the Gates of the Urban, Galerie K&S Berlin-Germany
2003 Turkish Art Today “Neresi? Burasi?” Museum of Modern Art, Saitama- Japan
2001 Dare to be different, Cultural Lindart Center, Fier-Albania
2000 Young Art 3 Exhibition, Ankara

Photographs printed in:
2003 May Stora Enso ,(USA) “C” magazine, special issue on Turkey
2001 Proje 4L “Becoming a Place” exhibition catalog, Proje 4L, Istanbul
2002 Genis Açı / Art Photography Magazine, Istanbul
2000 YKY Sanat Dünyamız ( Art Review ), Istanbul

Artist Book
2014 “The Notebook”, Stay With Me, group exhibition,Apartment Project, Berlin-Germany
2014 “The Rebirth of the Turkish Delight: Cool İstanbul” for CooL Istanbul Platform, Munich Germany

Lecture- Photo- Sound Performance
2021 Dinge Ohne Bedeutung, Nur Dinge, Mit Kunst Zentrale, Haus der Statistik, Berlin
2014 “Therapeutic landscapes of panoramic Istanbul”, Kadir Has Uni.Istanbul
2017 Nights Like This 1, with Ceren Oykut and Gökçe Akçelik, Peyote, Istanbul