Visual Essay Istanbul
Visual Essay is the story of Istanbul told by the German artist and critic Stefan Roemer. Roemer plays with the ethos of the snapshot and in no way pretends to offer an in-depth image of the city. The essay poses the questions of how can one approach a photographic project in a foreign city , how can one conceive of its images if one does not wish to operate in the service of a touristic cliché industry? The artist is at a loss to find the answer and proceeds to drift around following visual clues as they present themselves.
For the exhibition “De-Regulation” Stefan Roemer proposes a visual essay on Istanbul, an essay whose relation to Kutlug Atamans video work is neither illustrative nor anecdotal. Rather than an art historical or representational form of contextualisation, this visual essay works to open up a subject. It expresses an overall interest in how an image emerges as a process, rather than as the representation of something that pre-exists it.
For the exhibition “De-Regulation” Stefan Roemer proposes a visual essay on Istanbul, an essay whose relation to Kutlug Atamans video work is neither illustrative nor anecdotal. Rather than an art historical or representational form of contextualisation, this visual essay works to open up a subject. It expresses an overall interest in how an image emerges as a process, rather than as the representation of something that pre-exists it.
