EXHIBITION: WAYS OUT FROM THE WORLD (18 MAY - 11 JUNE, 2017)

The “Ways Out From The World” is a quotation from the author, the poet and the artist Sami Baydar’s book of the same title from 1990. In despairing circumstances of impossibility and impotence of action, Baydar proposes the poetic act –Act of making meaning / making the World- as a vigorous enactment of emancipation, directly referencing to the realm of imaginary, the ways that art can open up.

In order to conceive the world today that has ever become more complicated with the ongoing wars, mass migrations, environmental problems, the exhibition aims at proposing novel languages, creative forms, unorthodox methods and practices to open up the imaginary. Cappadox 2017 contemporary art program will explore the distinct ways of poetic act, ‘making the world’ in the heart of the inspiring and complex geography of Cappadocia, by and large Anatolia.

The contemporary art programme of Cappadox will take place in Avanos, Keyişdere Vadisi (Göreme), Uçhisar and İbrahimpaşa.

In Keyişdere Valley, the projects by Alper Aydın, Chapuisat Brothers, Deniz Gül, Erdağ Aksel, İris Ergül, Nermin Er and Yaşam Şaşmazer can be visited.