Cansu Çakar: New Rarities - Couverture souple

Çakar, Cansu

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1849769680 ISBN 13 : 9781849769686

Editeur : Tate Publishing, 2024

Synopsis

Based in İzmir, Turkey, Cansu Çakar developed New Rarities during two residencies in St Ives in 2024. She became interested in representations of seashells, imagining them as both homes and graves. This led to an exploration of the shifting cultural value of natural resources – including Tyrian purple and Cornish tin – and the exploitation of landscapes and people through their extraction.

Laboriously derived from murex sea snails, Tyrian purple was named for its origins in Tyre, a centre of the ancient civilisation of Phoenicia that spread from modern-day Lebanon to trade and settle across the Mediterranean. This rare dye has been used to colour many precious artefacts through time. In parallel, tin from Cornwall and Devon was also a valuable resource across the ancient world. It has even been suggested that the Phoenicians came to Cornwall in search of it, though there is no archaeological evidence for this.

Çakar’s installation re-examines concepts of value, rarity and cultural heritage by speculatively tracing such ancient trade routes, real or imagined. Unfolding across a shell-like spiral of paper resembling an ancient map, it offers a story guided more by oral traditions than historical records.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Cansu Çakar was born in Istanbul in 1988, and now lives and works in İzmir, Turkey.

Anne Barlow is Director at Tate St Ives.

Previously, she was Artistic Director at Tate St Ives (2017–2018), Director of Art in General, New York (2007–2016), Curator of Education and Media Programs at the New Museum, New York (1999–2006), and Curator of Contemporary Art and Design at Glasgow Museums, Scotland (1994–1999).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Tate Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1849769680
• ISBN 13: 9781849769686
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 28
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