Gate 27, farklı pratiklerin araştırma ve üretim süreçlerini desteklemek ve disiplinlerarası etkileşime zemin yaratmak amacıyla 2019’da kurulmuş bir uluslararası konuk sanatçı programıdır.
Gate 27, farklı pratiklerin araştırma ve üretim süreçlerini desteklemek ve disiplinlerarası etkileşime zemin yaratmak amacıyla 2019’da kurulmuş bir uluslararası konuk sanatçı programıdır.
Sketches in Search of a New Atmosphere
2020, Pencil, charcoal and ink on paper
Various dimensions
Based on her observations about the environment, the images Didem Erbaş photographed or recorded during her residency period and on her way to and from the residency premises, became the guiding elements on her wall, serving as visual notes she used during the program.
Shanty houses along the roads, structures or objects shaped with human intervention, stray cats and dogs wandering the streets are some of the main themes of the images Erbaş collected. The buildings in Yeniköy and its surroundings, their architecture and their relationship with nature also constitute the starting point of the sketches the artist produced in Gate 27.
Referring to the relationship between the concepts of refuge, shelter and geography, which she started to tackle before the residency, and the shelter architecture concept mentioned in Paul Virilio’s “Bunker Archeology”, Erbaş produced drawings around the possibility of creating her own shelter models. In these works, based on the question “What would be the most basic needs if humanity had to start life again when everything was destroyed?”, the artist aims to create new kinds of escape areas and refuges.