Every two years, SFMOMA celebrates Bay Area artists and our creative community with the SECA Art Award. Established in 1967, the award has honored nearly one hundred local recipients with an exhibition and platform for expanding their practices and sharing their work with new audiences. The 2024 SECA Art Award exhibition celebrates Rose D’Amato, Angela Hennessy, and Rupy C. Tut. Each artist has conceived a gallery with new works that bring distinct perspectives, processes, and materials into the museum.
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Imagination as a Radical Duty: Sofía Córdova /
CCA Campus Gallery presents Reunited, a collaboration with the San Francisco Advocacy for the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Complementing the exhibition is a unique catalogue available for purchase that was designed by GRL GRP and printed by Colpa Press. The catalogue is a collection of twelve booklets that provides an in-depth look at each artist’s work
Conversation with Jérôme Sans // Borusan Contemporary /
Naz Cuguoğlu explores Doug Aitken's Naked City exhibition with curator Jérôme Sans, delving into urban life and modern loneliness.
Mirror Remembers /
Written for Tuğçe Evirgen Özmen’s exhibition “mirror remembers” at Staircase, for more information about the exhibition click here.
samfiftyfour Issue VIII /
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Onomatopee /
Lebriz Collection Book /
Love Letters // Tohu Magazine /
Love Letters is an exchange of letters and poems between two collaborators, work partners but also good friends who used to share the same city but departed due to personal decisions. As the co-founders of Collective Çukurcuma, Mine Kaplangi and Naz Cuguoglu have been experimenting on collective writing in recent years. For this special issue they write Love Letters to one another.
Reforming Relationships in the Classroom // Art Asia Pacific /
Review: Carlos Villa Worlds in Collision // Art Asia Pacific /
Letters from indeterminate future: Remnants of the archives of reconfigured past // HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt /
Letters from indeterminate future: Remnants of the archives of reconfigured past
by Naz Cuguoğlu, Özge Çelikaslan
A Cosmological Feast (For M) + try + this // Crowstep Poetry Journal /
A Cosmological Feast (For M)
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The Art World’s Tainted Love for “Discovering” Artists: The Case of Etel Adnan // HYPERALLERGIC /
“What does the discovery narrative do? On the one hand, it gives more visibility and acknowledgement; on the other hand, it narrows down complicated histories — or omits them altogether. Artists being presented by Western institutions for the first time get portrayed as exhibiting for the first time in their careers. This understanding assumes that they were not acknowledged before. This institutional narrative of “rediscovered” artists therefore creates a myth around their practice. Their histories outside Western institutions or by non-Western curators do not get counted. Eventually, discovery assumes the prerequisite of an acknowledgment from the cultural mainstream, one “naturally” positioned in the West. It creates a hierarchy between West and non-West, between institutional spaces in the cultural mainstream — museums and acclaimed institutions — and spaces and cultures relegated to outsider status: alternative exhibition spaces, galleries, non-Western museums, and small or mid-sized institutions.”
AN ATTEMPT TO RECALL AND REVIVE: WITH JOHN GERRARD ON ENDLING (MARTHA) // Borusan Contemporary /
In the introduction to the project titled Endling (Martha) by John Gerrard, there is a quote by Samuel Butler’s novel Erewhon (1872), which touches upon the question of consciousness when it comes to machines, and its similarities to how humans approach animals. While we have been domesticating, taking advantage of, and consuming our nonhuman allies for centuries, Gerrard defines Martha as “a hybrid form, a data object in dialogue with photography, history and ecology.” Keeping in mind that history is subjective, constructed, man-made, and photography is sensitive to power hierarchies (by creating a structure between subject and object), I posed my questions to Gerrard to comprehend how he approaches this triangle of relations coupled with ecology and how he challenges those taken-for-granted narratives, turn them on their heads, and suggest a fresh narrative by keeping his own vulnerabilities present.
AN INTERVIEW WITH OLA KOLEHMAINEN ON THE SİNAN PROJECT // Borusan Contemporary /
“Even in the early times of Christianity, buildings and the light were used to enhance the spiritual experience. This sensational use of light was applied to the huge scale of Hagia Sophia, inspiring Sinan to develop it further.”—Ola Kolehmainen
Fragmented Apocalyptic Thoughts on Healing, Mountains, Aliens, and Other Cosmic Events // Hamam Magazine /
AN INTERVIEW WITH MIKA TAJIMA // Borusan Contemporary /
“Like you mentioned earlier, we have this longing to be around other bodies. What we are experiencing now is just an accelerated version of what was already happening. It's an extreme moment of disassociation and disembodiment.”—Mika Tajima
