14 january - 3 april 2011

Inci  Eviner

Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

In residence at Villa Raffet as part of SAM Art Projects since august 2010, Inci Eviner is a turkish artist who lives and works in Istanbul.

She has taken part in numerous biennales including in Istanbul and in Busan, South Korea, in october this year. In 2009 she awarded a residency at the MAC/VAL in Vitry-sur-Seine where she presented the  New Citizen project, and showed the Harem installation at Istanbul Traversée in Lille.

For her exhibition in Room 18 of the Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, thanks to SAM Art Projects, Inci Eviner will present a series of three installations.

The first space is filled with drawings produced during her residency. Taking inspiration from current events and miscellaneous documents, this is a world that is part Bruegel, part Surrealism. It forms an antechamber, a subliminal state that leads to the vast video panorama in the next space. Fifteen metres long, like a frieze of wallpaper, it shows small figures in the act of demonstrating, dancing, moving in a burlesque or solemn way.

Shown for the first time, it uses HD picture-in-picture techniques and sets the stage for the third and final installation, Parliament.

this is Inci Eviner's vision of the European Parliament as a citizen of a country, Turkey, which has requested membership of the EU. For the people of Europe, this building stands for opening, transparency, encounters and exchange. For the Turks and all non-members , this symbol of democracy and civilisation becomes a complex language that is hard to interpret.

These overlapping views, Tukish and European, are the material for Inci Eviner's work : a third view, a creative curiosity. This exhibition will highlight the duality that is a constant feature of her work: past/present, insider/outsider, East/West, Man/Woman, human/animal...