A private museum located in Istanbul’s business district Maslak, the Elgiz Museum is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. A small building that is dwarfed by the skyscrapers surrounding it, theis home to a commendable contemporary art collection, and is the current location for a terrace exhibition on its rooftop.
Ufuk Gunes Taskin’s 2021 work “Post Truth Era, Post Human Bodies” reflects a future where bodies seek their own reality in a time when truth is uncertain. Member of the advisory board Nilufer Ergin, who was one of the selectors evaluating the work submitted for display in The Future exhibition, writes in the foreword that “despite the pandemic that has swept the world, changed almost all our habits and left us on a threshold, this year we saw once again that artists protect life with art as they did last year.”
Canan Demir’s 2019 work “One Day in the Past” questions gender roles in a male-dominated society and emphasises the significance of opposites and contrasts.