Nuri Bilge Ceylan - Climates

The exhibition will be open to the public from Wednesday, 9.11.22.
The official opening event will take place on Friday, 18.11.22, in the presence of the artist.

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Taking its title from Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s 2006 film Climates, which won him that year’s prize for Best Film in the Cannes Film Festival, by the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI), the exhibition at Ashosh gallery features wide vistas of landscapes, taken by Ceylan. These include the highlands and the city, the open road and fields, the mountains and train tracks. In all of them we see human presence featured as a figure with the landscape as its backdrop, and at the same time that human figure seems to be part of the landscape as well. the film Climates, tells the story of a couple, Bahar and İsa, as they are breaking up, along different parts of Turkey, and different seasons. The characters are played by Ceylan and his wife Ebru Ceylan. The poetic landscapes that are featured in the film, like the archeological sites in the sun-blinding coastal town of Kaş, in Antalya, or the snowy Ağrı province in eastern Turkey, correspond with the collections of photographs in the exhibition.

Born in Istanbul, where he also did his studies in electrical engineering, Ceylan actually grew up just outside the ruins of historical Troy, where his father, Mehmet Emin Ceylan (1922-2012), worked as an agricultural engineer in the town of Yenice. In the photo opening the exhibition – and the only one in the exhibition to depict an interior setting - we see his father, seated in a room with a stove, as he is looking out to an open window with the breeze coming in through the curtains. This autobiographical photo sets the tone for the exhibition; the point of view, through the framed window, of a father who has dedicated his professional life to the dependency of man on nature, and the surround that engulfs this photo, the setting that is outside the frame.