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Past Resident
2022: SAHA Association

Artist

Sümer Sayin

Sümer Sayin works with transformed objects as sculptures to investigate how we perceive our environment and how we can create alternative realities. Through playful visual interventions, Sayin creates conceptual and contextual alterations. She transforms systems, tools, and objects that are used to define our surroundings, movements or presence in one way or another to create poetic meanings and visible connections.

Sümer Sayin has exhibited work at R E I T E R, Berlin; Depo, Istanbul; 2015 Lyon Biennial, Jeune Création International, Lyon, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

2022 Spring Open Studios

April 22–April 23, 2022

Stone found on a beach, its photograph and stone made of ceramic. The handmade stone is sculpted by hand with clay looking at the photo as a reference, then fired to a stoneware temperature.

Sümer Sayin, Your Untitled Stone, 2020, stone, sculpture, and c-print photo, dimensions variable

Sümer Sayin, Action Plan, 2018, wood, ropes, and hooks, dimensions variable

The mirrors cut out exactly in the shape of DEPO's former window, are placed on the wall with light projected onto them, creating reflections on the ground and giving the illusion of light coming through the window.

Sümer Sayin, It Is Still Light Outside, 2018, mirrors and spotlight, 50 × 35 in. (127 × 88.9 cm)

Sümer Sayin, Access, Your Personal Key, 2018, 3D print (alumide) and catalog, dimensions variable

Sümer Sayin, What If, 2017, Installation, lifebuoy and plexiglass boards

Residents from Turkey

Alper Aydin

Throughout history, domes—the components of buildings pointing to the sky—have been identified as the source of spirituality and able to deliver the images, narratives, and messages of the skies. In this work, two large-sized satellite dishes whirling around their axes stand level with the audience and, with their controlled rotation, get in a loop akin to the movement of the planet, the sun, and the moon, formation of months and years. One of the dishes of these two technical systems holds the ornaments and the Arabic calligraphy of the dome of Hagia Sophia. The other one carries the dome of parecclesion of Chora Monastery depicting the Virgin and Child and the angels. The forms and the ornaments of these small representations of the vault of heaven have been adapted to the antenna systems used to communicate, observe, and receive signals. The micro vaults of heaven are placed next to people instead of above. They unite with the sky in the open air. This work directs people’s gaze to outer space, the unknown, and the infinitude of imagination and reflects hope about the future.

Turkey

SAHA Association

Studio #203

Eda Gecikmez

Turkey

SAHA Association

2023

Baris Gokturk

Monument III is based on a photograph I saw on the wall of a working-class restaurant in Ankara, Turkey. The photograph shows an equestrian statue of Ataturk, the founder of republic, right before it left the foundry.

Turkey, United States

SAHA Association

2021

Qatar

Past Resident
2022: Fire Station - Qatar Museums

Artist

Hana Al-Saadi

Hana Al-Saadi’s work explores the effects of her cultural society and the use of social media to generate discussions with anonymous identities and the space between privacy and the public. She works with archives, sound, and household items to create and assemble spontaneous installations.

Hana Al-Saadi has exhibited work at Cosmoscow, Moscow; The WaterFire Arts Center, Providence; and Fire Station – Qatar Museums, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

Water Works

September 15, 2022–February 17, 2023

2022 Spring Open Studios

April 22–April 23, 2022

2021 Fall Open Studios

November 13, 2021

The installation consists of the artist's late grandmother sewing machine and the artist's shoe on the machine's pedal, sewing an endless loop of fabric. The installation represents two different generations, being the younger trying to follow the traditional line of an older generation.

Hana Al-Saadi, Endless Work, Unless the Power is Out, 2015, sewing machine, canvas, wood, sneaker, and cement, dimensions variable

The installation consists of a foosball resembling toy sandwiched by two electric standing fans facing each other, rotating and playing with each other.

Hana Al-Saadi, Endless Game, Unless the Power is Out, 2015, fans, woods, and plexiglass, dimensions variable

Untitled is a highly intuitive work where the artist experimented with hair accessories, exploring the importance of hair grooming for women in the Islamic world. The work is a cast of multiple hairpins organized to form a pattern. This work was a catalyst for which the artist expanded the idea of the importance of hair to women

Hana Al-Saadi, Untitled, 2929, resin, 11 × 11 in. (27.94 × 27.94 cm)

Hana Al-Saadi, If you need help, wear yellow, 2021, ink on newsprint, dimensions variable

Residents from Qatar

Muneera Al-Buainain

Qatar

Fire Station - Qatar Museums

Studio #209

Saeeda Albadr

Qatar

Fire Station - Qatar Museums

2024

Ebtisam Alsaffar

Qatar

Fire Station - Qatar Museums

2023

Portugal

Past Resident
2022: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

Artist

Ana Manso

The work of Ana Manso is ingrained deeply in the medium of painting, making the canvas or raw wall surface a place of encounter between the real world and the imaginary. Free of structure, order, and rationale, Manso uses the language of abstraction and color, where the resemblance of forms, driven by chance, is coincidental and uninviting to interpretation, favoring instead a sense of spirituality and mystery.

Ana Manso has exhibited work at Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto; FUTURA Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague; and the Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art, Luxembourg City, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

2022 Spring Open Studios

April 22–April 23, 2022

Ana Manso, 7-03-02, 2017, soft pastel, wax crayon, sand paint and water based paint on wall, exhibition view at yo-yo, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves . Photo by Filipe Braga, © Fundação de Serralves, Porto.