Sarkis’s exhibition 85 Screams: After Munch, which takes as its point of departure the figure in Munch’s The Scream—an image he first encountered in a newspaper clipping during his childhood and which has resonated throughout his work for years—remains on view at Dirimart Dolapdere through October 15.
Through the exhibition, we consider Sarkis’s artistic practice and the points between which it oscillates, like a pendulum. Sarkis is arguably among the artists in contemporary Turkish art with the strongest sense of historical consciousness—one who most acutely conveys the human condition as inherently historical. History, as we know, is a heavy material: a burden, a weight—particularly in countries such as Turkey, where confronting the past remains limited.
