larissa.araz@gmail.com

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Larissa Araz (Istanbul, 1990) is an artist and founder of Poşe artist-run space in Istanbul, Turkey. She studied Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, NY, USA and Visual Arts at Koç University in Istanbul, TR. She was a recipient of the Prince Claus Seed Award in 2021. She participated in Saha Studio residency from 2019-2020, Arter Research Program in 2020-2021, WHW Akademija in 2023 and the Cite Des Arts Residency in Paris in 2023. She will attend to Onasis Artist Residency in Athens in 2024.

Araz focuses on alternative histories, non-human witnesses, and the construction of dominant ideologies through institutional knowledge production. Through personal narratives, she researches documents, archives, ruins, silences, traces, and memories that are not included in, or kept hidden from social memory. Between reality and fiction, she tries to discuss possible futures and unrevealed pasts using mythology and rituals. She uses different mediums in her practice but mainly focuses on text and image-making.


She is also the other half of palimpsest (with author Ekin Can Göksoy) which departs from the ancient belief that nothing is as it seems. With an approach far surpassing the modern conceptualization of the archive, where historical records are brought together and classified. palimpsest attempts to create an archive of the annotations on the margins of manuscripts, the decorations crumbling from the walls of buildings, the written messages behind found photographs, and the testimony of what is no longer there.

Araz founded Poşe Artist Run Space in April 2018. Poşe is conceived with an urge to establish a community. It is a physical and mental open-space for those who feel the need for dialogue and critique. Poşe has displayed many exhibitions including solo and group productions along with public programming and other content.

For more information: pose-hello.com

 

Education

2014 Koç University, Media and Visual Arts, Istanbul, Turkey

2010 NYU, Steinhardt Media, Communication and Culture, New York, USA

Solo Exhibitions

2024, In Hoc Signo Vinces, Istanbul, TR

2023, Semi-Fiction, Büro Sarıgedik, Istanbul, TR

2021, East & West, Krank Art Gallery, Istanbul, TR

2020, Begin To See Through The Darkness, Bilsart, Istanbul, TR

2020, Words Don’t Come Easy, Öktem Aykut Gallery, Istanbul,TR

2020, Words Don’t Come Easy, Dreiviertel Art Space, Bern, CH

2018, Chance For a Miracle, Poşe Art Space, Istanbul,TR

Group Exhibitions and Features

2023, I Heard It Them Singing in the Mountains, Curated by Eva Vaslamatzi, Stoa Kairi, Athens, Greece

2023, Observatory, On Deculturalisation. Chapter 1, Curated by Zaira Oram, oxyd - Kunsträume, Winterthur, Switzerland

2022, Voice From Afar, Oto Sound Museum, Nov, Online

2022, 2022, Life, Death, Love and Justice, Curated by Didem Yazıcı, Peter Sit, Burcu Çimen, Yapı Kredi Culture and Arts, Istanbul, Turkey

2022, Reflections from the Women's Archives, Depo, Istanbul, TR

2021, Hassas Müdahale, Kıraaathane, Istanbul, TR

2020, Open Studio Days, Saha Studio, Istanbul, TR

2019, Akbank Contemporary Art Prize Exhibition, Istanbul, TR

2019, Talk: The Soil I thread… , Greek School, Istanbul ,TR

2018, Large Meadow, Ariel ,Istanbul, TR

2018, Unerlöst, Corpus G Gallery, Istanbul, TR

2017, Survival Kit, Cultural Transit Foundation, Yekaterinburg, RU

2017, 30 under 30 Woman Photographers, Popping Club, Rome, IT

2017, Survival Kit, Space Debris, Istanbul, TR

2016, Young, Fresh, Different 7 , Gallery Zilberman, Istanbul, TR

2016 We are not dead yet!, Mamut Art 16, Küçük Çiftlik Park, Istanbul, TR

2013 Second Eye Women Photographers from Turkey, Sismanoglou Megaro , Istanbul, TR 

Grants and Awards

2023, Artist Development Program, European Investment Bank

2021, Prince Claus Seed Award

Workshops and Residencies

2024 Onasis Air, Athens, GR

2024, Tbilisi Photography Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia

2023, Cite Internationales des Arts, Paris, FR

2023-2024 WHW Akademija, WHW, Adelita Husni-Bey, Pablo Martinez, Yael Davids, Marina Naprushkina, Zagreb, Croatia

2020-2021 Arter Research Program, Arter Museum

2019-2020, Saha Studio Residency, Saha Foundation

2019, Qayyem, MASS Alexandria workshops by Bassam El Baroni, Binna Choi and Maria Berrios, Alexandria, Eygpt

2018, Articulating Research, Ben Eastham, Aslı Seven, Merve Ünsal (M-est), Salt

2018, Resource Utopia , Andreas Rost, Michael Biedowicz, Volkan Kızıltunç , Goethe-Institut İstanbul, NOKS Art Space

2017, Tony Chakar and Marwa Arsanios’  “In Seeking Incuriously” Workshop, Salzburg Summer Art Academy

 

Selected Press, Publications, and Interviews

Milliyet Sanat - ‘Dil mağarası’nın oluşturduğu hafıza’ review by Seray Şahinler, (TR), 2024

AGOS - Review by Hanriet Basoğlu, Agos, Turkey, 2023

Çatlak Zemin - Interview (TR), 2022

Re: [aap_2020] - The publication Re: [aap_2020], produced as part of the 2020–2021 edition of the Arter Research Programme, includes the research-led contributions of Kerem Altaylar, Eylem Ejder, Nejbir Erkol, Alev Ersan, Furkan Öztekin, palimpsest (Larissa Araz & Ekin Can Göksoy), Rojda Tuğrul and Aslı Uludağ, as well as collaborative texts produced in the context of the programme. (ENG &TR), 2021

ArteEast- Interview (ENG), 2021

ArtForum - Review of Kaya Genç (ENG), 2021

Art Unlimited - Interview with Selin Çiftçi (TR), 2021

Daily Sabah - Review Matt Hanson (ENG), 2020

Diken - Interview with Gülben Çapan (TR), 2020

Art Unlimited - Interview with Necmi Sönmez (TR), 2020

Border_less - An article on Füsun Onur’s “Chamber Music” exhibition written by the artist (TR), 2020

Masallah News - About the photography series “We are Not Dead Yet” written by the artist (ENG), 2016

Istanbul Art News - Interview with Serra Yentürk (TR), 2016

Radio Talks

FOAM TALKS - Talk with Ece Gökalp (ENG) 13.09.2023

deutschlandfunkkultur - A review of the exhibition Life, Love, Death and Justice, (DE) 30.12. 2022

Açık Radyo - Talk about the show ”Reflections from Women’s Archives” with İlksen Mavituna (TR) 12.4.2022

Açık Radyo - Talk about the solo exhibition “Words Don’t Come Easy” with Çelenk Bafra (TR) 6.1.2020

Açık Radyo - Talk about Saha Studio Residency with Çelenk Bafra and the artists Sibel Horada, Alper Aydın, Özgür Demirci (TR) 14.2.2020

Reboot FM - Talk about Poşe Art Space and Poşe’s event Çilingir Sofrası (ENG) 7.7.2019

Collections

Istanbul Modern

European Investment Bank