{"id":14033,"date":"2020-02-09T14:20:12","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T06:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=14033"},"modified":"2020-03-19T14:58:27","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T06:58:27","slug":"ahmet-ogut-history-otherwise-19-february-24-april-2020-press-release","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/portfolio-item\/ahmet-ogut-history-otherwise-19-february-24-april-2020-press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahmet \u00d6\u011f\u00fct &#8211; History Otherwise | 19 February &#8211; 24 April 2020 &#8211; Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='artists-title'  class='avia-section av-av_section-142ff43b7600746a6e970fde5cf91c57 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  avia-bg-style-scroll  container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-14033'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<div class='flex_column av-av_one_full-2a9015ff38129c418a3f2eafba3e9512 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div '   ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_hr-a6de236e6c183bbbd700292deacd2b52\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-av_hr-a6de236e6c183bbbd700292deacd2b52{\nheight:20px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-av_hr-a6de236e6c183bbbd700292deacd2b52 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-2  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first  '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><h3 class=\"p1\" style=\"font-family: 'eb garamond'; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; text-align: left;\"><a title=\"Ahmet \u00d6g\u00fct \u2013 History Otherwise | 19 February \u2013 24 April 2020 \u2013 Works\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/portfolio-item\/ahmet-ogut-history-otherwise-19-february-24-april-2020-works\/\">WORKS<\/a>\u00a0|<a title=\"Ahmet \u00d6g\u00fct \u2013 History Otherwise | 19 February \u2013 24 April 2020 \u2013 Press Release\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/portfolio-item\/ahmet-ogut-history-otherwise-19-february-24-april-2020-press-release\/\">\u00a0PRESS RELEASE<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div class='flex_column av-av_one_full-2a9015ff38129c418a3f2eafba3e9512 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-last  first flex_column_div column-top-margin'   ><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '  style='font-size:14px; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'open sans thin'; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 25px; letter-spacing: 1px;\">History Otherwise<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ahmet \u00d6\u011f\u00fct\u2019s first ever solo exhibition in Malaysia, \u2018<em>History Otherwise\u2019, <\/em>challenges our ways of knowing and understanding the world. This exhibition unveils history through the perspective of the \u201csubaltern\u201d \u2013 revealing the realities that we often overlook, or consider invisible. Comprising four artworks of different mediums \u2013 tapestry, mail art, drawings, and video \u2013 the exhibition attempts to alter the Eurocentric way of looking at history without falling into the trap of creating new \u201ccentralisms\u201d. Each work unfolds stories that shape our current times seen through the lenses of various personages and societies, and poses fundamental questions surrounding history as we know it. <em>Who should write the global history? Who is it destined for? How do artists take part in remapping the connectedness of the world? <\/em>As historian Serge Gruzinski wrote, <em>\u201cIt is by shifting the focus and no longer only by inverting the points of view (..) that we can hope to achieve a history that makes sense in our own age\u201d<strong><a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Spanning more than six meters in the gallery space is \u00d6\u011f\u00fct\u2019s recent work entitled <em>History Otherwise: Ottoman Socialist\u00a0Hilmi\u00a0and Ottoman Women\u2019s Rights Defender\u00a0Nuriye<\/em> (2019-2020), exhibited for the first time in the form of tapestry. This piece invites us to discover two invisible aspects of late the 19th-century Ottoman era; the Socialist heritage and the women\u2019s liberation movement. Created based on a painting that \u00d6\u011f\u00fct had realize on the occasion of the Art Encounters Biennal 2019 (Timisoara, Romania), the image depicts two central figures set in an Ottoman style living room: H\u00fcseyin\u00a0Hilmi\u00a0Bey, founder of the Ottoman Socialist Party (1910\u20131913) and the Ottoman Socialist magazine &#8220;\u0130\u015ftirak&#8221;, as well as Nuriye Ulviye Mevlan Civelek, one of the leading founder of the\u00a0Ottoman Society for the\u00a0Defense\u00a0of Women\u2019s Rights (1913-1921). The Ottoman society had a small yet powerful circle of women who played significant roles in the public debates surrounding women\u2019s rights, notably through the publish of several issues of a feminist Ottoman magazine. The large-scale painting was done on a pedestrian street in the heart of Timisoara, in a particular way that creates an illusion of an archeological dig \u2013 a symbol of a forgotten history. Although the Ottomans used to rule the city between 1551-1716, there are very few\u00a0visible traces of them the city\u2019s present urban landscape.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Intriguing is the way \u00d6\u011f\u00fct repurposes what he calls \u201csocial ready-mades\u201d \u2013 existing objects with specific social functions \u2013 into an artwork. The piece <em>Self-Made Mail Art Archive\u00a0<\/em>(2019) owes itself to the artist\u2019s personal discovery of old Maltese envelopes with special graphics and stamps; traces of the sociopolitical connections between Malta and the rest of the world. More than a tool of communication, the envelopes were conveyers of political messages across the country and beyond, linking the local and the global. These envelopes now serve as the artist\u2019s canvas, as he intervenes with copies of\u00a0mail\u00a0art\u00a0gestures, stamps, and notes taken from matching year of\u00a0mail\u00a0art\u00a0examples from several prominent artists: Genesis P-Orridge,\u00a0Lee Lozano,\u00a0Mierle Laderman Ukeles,\u00a0On Kawara, Anna Banana, Luc Fierens, Hans Ruedi Fricker, and Sol LeWitt\u2019s postcard to Eva Hesse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, pieces of personal experiences are laid bare in the work<em> Fantasized Fantastic Corporeal World<\/em>\u00a0(2019), a series of pencil drawings on paper accompanied by typewritten texts by the artist. Each frame depicts a true yet ironic story, the result of tools enforced by the \u201cnation-state\u201d; passports, borders, embassies, and the state itself. Highlighting issues from racial segregation to border control, every vignette reflects the transitory element of the story at a given time, whilst suggesting a possible change in outcomes which could prevail over \u2013 or generate \u2013 a different narrative.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lastly, the short animation <em>United <\/em>(2016-17), commissioned by the 11th Gwangju Biennale, was created by the artist in memory of a twenty-one year old protester named Lee Han-Yeol, who passed away in Seoul in 1987, as well as Enes Ata, a six-year-old Kurdish boy who lost his life during protests in Diyarbak\u0131r, in \u00d6\u011f\u00fct\u2019s homeland, Turkey, in 2006. This animation, in the style of Korean comics \u201cManhwa\u201d, not only portrays the stories of these two young boys that fell victim to state violence \u2013 struck with gas canisters during civilian protests \u2013 but presents them both as narrators, advising tips on how to protect oneself from tear gas during a demonstration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Consulting local historians and visiting remnants are \u00d6\u011f\u00fct\u2019s approach in investigating the untold stories that have formed our society and the way we are. The four pieces in <em>\u2018History Otherwise\u2019<\/em> that so succinctly interrogate and reveal these accounts and events, serve as a testament to the necessity of analysing our own relationship to the so called history of the \u201csubaltern\u201d. It is a recounting of those narratives that somehow do make it to our public consciousness, and a reminder that we are perhaps, much less removed from these events than we might first assume.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ahmet \u00d6\u011f\u00fct (b. 1981,\u00a0Silvan, Diyarbakir) lives and works in Amsterdam.\u00a0\u00d6\u011f\u00fct\u00a0has exhibited at the 11th Gwangju Biennale,\u00a013th Biennale de Lyon,\u00a07th Liverpool Biennial,\u00a05th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art,\u00a012th Istanbul Biennial, amongst others and co-represented Turkey\u00a0at the 53rd \u00a0Venice Bienniale. His works touch a broad range of media including video, photography, performance, installation, drawing and printed media.\u00a0\u00d6\u011f\u00fct\u00a0is also the initiator of the Silent University, an education\u00a0platform by displaced people and forced migrants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> Serge Gruzinski, <em>The Eagle and the Dragon: <\/em>Globalization and European Dreams of Conquest in China and America in the Sixteenth Century<em>, <\/em>2014, p. 44.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u2018History Otherwise<\/em>\u2019 is featured at Wei-Ling Contemporary from 19<sup>th<\/sup> February \u2013 24<sup>th<\/sup> April 2020<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Wei-Ling\u00a0Contemporary\u00a0is\u00a0located\u00a0at\u00a0RT01, Sixth\u00a0Floor,\u00a0The\u00a0Gardens\u00a0Mall,\u00a059200, Kuala<\/em><em> Lumpur, Malaysia.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><em>Admission\u00a0hours\u00a0are\u00a0Tuesday-Sunday 11am-7pm.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>\u00a0Please call +60322828323\/ +60322601106 or email: noel.weilinggallery@gmail.com for more information.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='hr av-av_hr-dcd2069817a0e3d34ae04cad8f3443c7 hr-default  avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock  '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '  style='font-size:14px; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/contemporary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/History-Otherwise-e-catalogue.pdf\">Click to view e-booklet<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unreservedmedia.com\/ahmet-ogut-rediscovering-history-with-art\/\">Ahmet \u00d6\u011f\u00fct: Rediscovering History with Art by Sandeep Dhanoa &#8211; Unreserved <\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"PAGES_CONTAINERbg\" class=\"pc1bg\" style=\"text-align: right;\" data-reactid=\".0.$SITE_ROOT.$desktop_siteRoot.$PAGES_CONTAINER.$centeredContent.$bg\"><\/div>\n<h1 class=\"post-title left\"><\/h1>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WORKS\u00a0|\u00a0PRESS RELEASE History Otherwise Ahmet \u00d6\u011f\u00fct\u2019s first ever solo exhibition in Malaysia, \u2018History Otherwise\u2019, challenges our ways of knowing and understanding the world. 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