“Your Thursday” Artist Meetings: In Conversation with Larissa Araz: Artistic Research from a Literary Work

“Your Thursday” Artist Meetings

Istanbul Modern opens its doors free of charge on museum days called “Your Thursday” with the sponsorship of Paribu. Every Thursday, between 10.00 and 14.00, the museum welcomes all its visitors residing in Türkiye with free admission. Visitors can explore all the exhibitions at Istanbul Modern and participate in artist workshops, events, and film screenings held once a month.

“Your Thursday” Artist Meetings include workshop sessions and discussions where artists share their creative processes and artistic experiences with participants. Through these activities, Istanbul Modern invites visitors to discover the museum, artworks, and artistic production processes, while allowing them to enrich their experience by creating together with artists.

In Conversation with Larissa Araz: Artistic Research from a Literary Work

In her practice, Larissa Araz focuses on alternative histories, non-human witnesses, evidence, and the construction of dominant ideologies through the production of knowledge by institutions. With a personal approach, she investigates documents, archives, remnants, silences, names, traces, and memories excluded or hidden from social memory. In this conversation, Araz delves into her 2019 installation “The soil you tread on…”—inspired by Greek author Dido Sotiriyu’s book Farewell Anatolia (1962). She explores the journey of the book's protagonist, Manolis Aksiyoti, from Ankara to Yozgat and Sivas, while tracing connections to the Labour Battalions of the First World War.

Date: January 23, 2025

Time: 13.00–14.30

Venue: Istanbul Modern Event Room 2

Duration: 90 mins

The event is free of charge.

The program is held in Turkish.