Last paragraph first: Ultimately this biennial’s focus on the “power of public space in terms of struggles, art and politics,” is not obsessed with the dominance of one thought or single medium, nor on artistic methods. The exhibition encourages the viewer to focus on the artworks, rather than highlighting the curator’s argument. However, one cannot escape the feeling that the gap between the biennial’s stated intention and the shape it ultimately took—as finely done but absolutely conventional international group exhibition—is a missed opportunity in light of what is going on outside the show’s white-cube venues. If the lesson learned by the art world from the Gezi Resistance is that we must step back from the crush of protest citing reasons of political sensitivity, some of the fundamental calls of the protesters will have fallen on deaf ears.
Posted on: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 22:01:05 +0000
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