Exibition with
Gilles Aubry and Youssef Tabti at Künstlerhaus-Hamburg FRISE
Work presented:
Rhetoric - Hill of the Pnyx
Photographs of wall scribblings in a former Turkish prison (Sinop Fortress Prison*) corresponding to a plans the Hill of Pnyx in Athens. In the background: video-Interview with Christos Yannaras.
In his video work, which is part of his, project “Rhetoric - Hill of the Pnyx ”, renowned Greek philosopher and Theologian Christos Yannaras (born in Athens in 1935. Professor Emeritus of
Philosophy at the Panteion University) gives
his point of view from ancient Greek history. The text was
deliberately spoken in Greek language, the language closest to the
original language, ancient Greek. The language and location of
this project are strongly symbolic and so go beyond their place and
time. They are intended to remind us of how people all over
the world have for centuries been fighting for the freedom of
expression.
*The Sinop Fortress Prison was featured in various stories and poems by notable Turkish writers, who served their sentence.
Refik Halit Karay,
Ahmet Bedevi Kuran,
Refii Cevat Ulunay,
Sabahattin Ali,
Kerim Korcan,
Nazım Hikmet and Zeyyat Selimoğlu are some of them to name.
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“RHETORIC – Hill
of the PNIX” 2017
Galerie Künstlerhaus-FRISE Hamburg 2017
Ausstellungsansicht: Bearbeitete Oberfläche einer
Holzplatte, Fotografie auf verschiedene Transparentpapiere.
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Inhalt: Gekritzel an Wände und Innenaufnahmen des
ehemaligen Staatsgefängnis Cezaevi in Sinop, Schwarzes Meer, Nord Türkei.
Skizzen von Umrissen und archäologischen Planungen der
PNYX in Athen, Griechenland
Gilles Aubry work:
“and who ears the desert”
Twelve LP records are presented in the exhibition space, available for playback on three turntables.
Photographs on transparent paper
in the background video with Christos Yannaras
20mn.
Für die Ausstellung habe ich mich mit dem Format von Zeitungsartikeln der "L'Alsace" und"Badische Zeitung" beschäftig. Ich freue mich beide Zeitungshäuser für das Projekt gewonnen zu haben.
Nach Zugang auf die Zeitungsarchiv könnte ich einige wichtige und
relevante Artikel für die Region Alsace und Baden-Württemberg finden, um
sie in einer Extraausgabe zusammen gestellt aus beiden Zeitungen für
die Ausstellung zu veröffentlich.
Exhibition Views. 
RHETORIC – Hill of the PNIX marks the end of Youssef
Tabti’s Istanbul trilogy. The work revolves around the theme of freedom
of speech and democracy. Only the first two parts, however, could be
completed in Istanbul. After the coup attempt in 2016, Tabti had to
relocate the project to a neighbouring country – Greece. In Athens
met with Christos Yannaras, a theologian and philosopher whose theses
have caused controversy far beyond Greece. In the centre of the Pnix,
the place of popular assemblies in ancient Athens, Yannaras reminds us
of the rhetoric art of democracy and thus sensitizes us for the current
threat to freedom of expression.
