Paylasilan Kutsal Mekânlar
Shared Sacred Sites
Depo
Istanbul
(April 20 – July 28, 2019)
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Dionigi Albera (CNRS)
Manoël Pénicaud (CNRS)
With the great support of Veli Başyiğit (Anadolu Kültür, Exhibition coordinator)
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Anadolu Kültür
Institut Français de Turquie
Ambassade de France en Turquie
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
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Karşılaşmalar x Sevim Sancaktar x Deniz Uludağ x Mert Zafer Kara
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Thomas Allom, Al-Nishapuri (reproduction), Saima Altunkaya, Hüsniye Ateş, Gentile Bellini (reproduction), Benji Boyadgian, Breydenbach (reproduction), Hera Büyüktaşçıyan, Manuel Çitak, Sébastien de Courtois, Dilşa Deniz, Ekrem Ekşi, Thierry Fournier, Giampaolo Galenda, Emrah Gökdemir, Nele Gülck & Nikolai Antoniadis, Engin Irız, Noha Ibrahim Jabbour (reproduction), Robert Jankuloski, Izzet Keribar, Elizabeta Koneska, Jens Kreinath, Sara Kuehn, Marion Lecoquierre, Cynthia Madansky, Marco Maïone, Jean-Luc Manaud, Diàna Markosian, Cécile Massie, Andrea Merli, Ossamah Musleh (reproduction), Yael Navaro, Ayse Özalp, Manoël Pénicaud, Nira Pereg, Antonio Pusceddu, Guy Raivitz, Sarkis, Gildas Sergé, Aylin de Tapia, Cemal Taş, Hale Tenger, Franco Tuccio, Gençer Yurttaş
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C-Album / Dirimart, Gamma-Rapho, Gemäldegalerie, Getty Research Institute, Houshamadyan, IDEMEC-CNRS-Aix-Marseille University, İstanbul Üniversitesi Nadir Eserler Kütüphanesi, Library of Congress, Musée des civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée (Mucem), The National Gallery, The New York Public Library, SATIS-Aix-Marseille University
about the exHibit
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The ‘Shared Sacred Sites’ project examines various locations in the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and the Balkans where the three Abrahamic religions have coexisted. The sites represented in the exhibition are examples from a vast geographic territory spanning France to Morocco, Turkey to Egypt.
The project argues that cross-cultural coexistence has been a viable way forward out of the essentialism, isolationism, and hatred that have often characterized the present day. Despite theological differences, the three religions share several elements regarding beliefs, rites, holy figures, and sites. However, these crossovers are not devoid of ambiguity and can sometimes lead to conflict. The Mediterranean world thus offers many examples of sharing, but also of partition and division.
Shared Sacred Sites explores this phenomenon by locating it through various examples in different contexts and by highlighting the entangled places and practices, symbols and figures that define it. Istanbul is ideally positioned to tell the story of Shared Sacred Sites, not only because the three monotheistic religions have historically flourished here but also cohabited for centuries through the Byzantine and Ottoman periods.
By combining contemporary art, photography, ethnographic material, and digital media, the exhibition highlights the multisensory experience of pilgrimage and ‘sharing the sacred’, the visually compelling dimension of sacred sites and landscapes in the Balkans and the Mediterranean and Istanbul’s rich and multi-layered past of religious diversity and co-existence.
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The opening took place on April 19, 2019.
A conference was organized on April 20, 2019 with the following speakers: Dionigi Albera (CNRS), Nikolai Antoniadis (Journalist), Sara Kuehn (Marie Curie Fellow, CNRS, Aix-Marseille University), Claudio Monge (Theologian, University of Strasbourg), Emre Öktem (Professor, Galatasaray University). Among the artists : Benji Boyadgian, Thierry Fournier, Nele Gülck, Nira Pereg, Sarkis, Hale Tenger.
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Karar: Paylaşılan Kutsal Mekânlar , July 10, 2019
Gazete Duvar: Medeniyetin maneviyat deposu , June 2, 2019
Hürriyet: Farklı inançlar, aynı mekânlar , May 22, 2019
Al-Monitor: Different faiths, shared sites explored in Istanbul , May 6, 2019
Medyascope: Kutsalı paylaşma: Akdeniz’de bir hac yolculuğu , April 29, 2019
Milliyet: Beyoğlu’nda haftanin sergileri, April 27, 2019
Gazete Duvar : « Dilek Ağacı'nda bir kurdele , April 25, 2019
photos
credit: Serra Akcan, Nar Photos, for Anadolu Kültür
