"Art should not be something distant but part of our everyday lives," said Melih Görgün, Sinopale's founder and artistic director. "Our process of collective work-creating art with a carpenter, blacksmith or craftswoman-reminds artists of practices and values they may have forgotten."
Banu Uğural listened to the stories of traditional textile makers in Sinop before retreating to a cell at the prison to weave Sacred One. An embroidered portrait of Zehra Yıldırım, an octogenarian who had tried to prevent the destruction of a forest that was razed for a lignite mine in southern Turkey, appears on white felt.
Aytekin Olgunsoy moulded dozens of small animal bones and driftwood into strange new specimens. Much of the material in Root was collected from the debris of increasingly frequent and deadly floods that inundate the Black Sea coast near his hometown.
"After the Istanbul Biennial, Sinopale is Turkey's oldest and most important biennial in terms of the strength of its content. But its visibility is still an issue that we need to tackle."
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