40.1
Işık Kaynağı - Light Source
2022
Light Source, 2022
Duration: 40 days (960 hours)
Odunpazarı Modern Museum (OMM), Eskisehir, Turkey
In collaboration with Performistanbul
Curator: Simge Burhanoğlu
“Grief and Pleasure” Exhibition, 2022
Light Source’s intellectual rights for reproducing was acquired by İdil Tabanca Collection in 2020.
©Ata Doğruel
The first performance within the '40' series, "Light Source" was born out of the thought that “we are each other’s light", which the artist repeated in his mind during the three-year period in which he lived in isolation, pre-pandemic. As part of the performance, the artist lived in a dark room for 40 days, and this room was only illuminated by candles brought inside by the audience.
Testing the limits of museums and going beyond traditional exhibition methods, the performance offers a vital experience. The fact that the museum kept its doors open for 7 days a week, 24 hours a day for 40 days is an important initiative in the global stage of performance art, and aims to bring newness into the development and future of the discipline.
In this context, this performance has achieved a historic milestone as the longest-running performance in the history of performance art, that is taking place in a museum and remaining open to the audience without interruption.
'Note to The Audience' below was written on a wall outside the performance room in the museum for the audience to read it before entering the performance. Additionally, the video below, in which the note is read by the artist, was also presented to the audience in a screen before the entrance.
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Poster Design: Studio Pul