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Hat & Pera: Installation, 35 hats, mixed technique on hats. Taksim is an old and big neighborhood of Istanbul in Turkey . The people of Istanbul prefers Taksim especially for traveling, having fun, eating, shopping and participating in artistic and cultural activities. ''Pera '' is the old name of Taksim. Pera has changed dramatically in the last 80 years. Because of their kindness, people living in Istanbul used to wear their hats on their way to Pera in old times. They would go there in their most elegant clothes. For this reason, she thinks the hat is a symbol of "kindness and respect" for the people of old Istanbul. Hats hang from the ceilining .This hat's views still make you feel you're walking in that area with the old Istanbuliteses. Even if Istanbul residents disappear one by one, with their artworks, lives and the values left by their, courtesy and cultural wealth they slowly took off their hats to us and greeted us. She thinks especially the old Istanbulites miss the old Istanbul very much. She observed the differences between the old Pera and the new Taksim neighborhood. She reconciled with the moments she lived in the Taksim neighborhood and her previous 'instant' conceptual art works . She referring to old Pera photographs, engravings and new Taksim photographs showing their new lives, she painted imaginary and realistic old and new images on hats. She started this series in 1998 and in 2004 developed the series using different techniques. When she was on her way to her studio in Galata, Beyoğlu... .from authentic Ottoman to Levantine culture, from the Genoese breeze to the Galata Tower and the pavilions...from the accordion sound from the musical instruments shops to the sound of Kokoreç's tong, cafes... Turkish coffee smell, raki smell, ... from the colorful laundry that a roman woman washed and hung along the street, from shadows reflected in the lights of luminaires, from cobblestones, children's chirps rise to the sky...and doves on the electrical wires .. and geraniums in pots.... evening prayer time ... reverie ... vanishes. In 2007 she recontructioned this installation for the movie "Fog and Night" by Turgut Yasalar adapted from Ahmet Ümit's book. İt has been exhibited in Artshop İstanbul (2003-2004). In 2007 she recontructioned this installation for the movie "Fog and Night" by Turgut Yasalar adapted from Ahmet Ümit's book. It has been exhibited in Artshop İstanbul (2003-2004). It was organized and exhibited, as a joint installation with Fatih Sungurtekin, Strategies No: Spaces & Form Exhibition, Curator Marcus Graf (2004) , Siemens Art Gallery/İstanbul. 2004 Strategies No:2 “Space & Form”, Göknil Gümüş's Art Work: Hat & Pera Installation, with Artist Fatih Sungurtekin 's Art Work: Cards to future 2050' Installation, Siemens Art Gallery /İstanbul While Famous Athena group sing their song ''For Real'' on 49 international Eurovision song contest ''Infinite Art'' named the hat which was worn by the group member Hakan Özoğuz was made by Göknil Gümüş Sungurtekin in 2004.
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GÖKNİL GÜMÜŞ SUNGURTEKİN Göknil Gümüş Sungurtekin was born at 1977 in İstanbul/ Turkey. She is a Turkish conceptual expressionist artist who lives and works in Turkey.
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