Deniz Buga @ DEPO

Untitled, 2012

This work aims to imitate cinematic time through sequencing in photography.

In WH II (2012), he re-worked the film adaptation of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights directed by Andrea Arnold in 2011.

From the original film, he eliminated the actors, and worked with the elements surrounding them; the shots of objects, animals and landscapes. With a new edit and sound design, these shots created their own alternative narrative altering their original intention of use. 

www.rijksacademie.nl (photocredits JW Kaldenbach)

The modern harem style by YER

The 'YER fan' by Friso Dijkstra and the 'YER mattress' by Borre Akkersdijk were made for  SALON/Workshop, the interdisciplinary part of SALON/Istanbul where Dutch designers collaborate with Turkish artisans.

Located in the back of the Mavra café, this installation, a.k.a. the 'YER project', doesn't contain signs prohibiting visitors to sit down. The white opium-flower shaped fan and the, probably, most colourful mattress ever made are not just pretty objects. They ought to be used. Textile designer Borre Akkersdijk and product designer Friso Dijkstra, both graduates from the Design Academy in Eindhoven, ask that café-goers sit down and have a rest. The colour coordinated cushions are completing this cozy YER corner and make this part of the SALON/Workshop ever so inviting.

The YER (meaning place, ground or floor) project was inspired by paintings of Istanbul illustrating the social life which often takes place close to the floor. Think rich fabrics, beautiful brass and copper ware in tea houses decorated with tapestries and cushions.  

"We worked quite intuitive translating the idea into shape and colour. It is much our image of their culture."

(photocredits: JW Kaldenbach)

www.byborre.com
www.studio-friso.com

Student project SALON/Workshop with IKSV

(photocredits JW Kaldenbach)


Imperfection provides an opportunity to participants by bringing professionals in local and international creative industries and different brands together with university students and co-experience the thinking and producing processes.
The Istanbul Design Biennial Workshops where held with students, undergraduate and graduate, in urban design, urban and regional planning, environmental design architecture, interior architecture, industrial design, graphic design, fashion design, fine arts, and new media design departments of relevant universities.

Students that worked on this project are: Elif Isik,

--> Övünç Sevinç, Buket Onat, Mustafa Kemal Yurtta, Hasret Özdemir, Berilsu Hatirnaz and Bahar Mey.

YOUASME MEASYOU @ Jean Botter House

(photocredits JW Kaldenbach)

Youasme Measyou has installed a virtual reality installation at the Jean Botter House called Lovers. The Jean Botter House was the workshop and family house of Dutchman Jan Botter, a famous couturier to Sultan Adbulhamid II. The installation consists of a cloud of dialogues between lovers, that can be seen with the iPhone app 'YOUASME'. The app can be downloaded for free at iTunes.

Youasme Measyou is a refined knitwear and jersey brand that specializes in contemporary knits for men and women.

www.youasme.com

BLOMMERS / SCHUMM @ HOUSE CAFE, ISTIKLAL

(credits: JW Kaldenbach)

Anuschka Blommers (1969) en Niels Schumm (1969), both graduated of the Rietveld Academy, started working together ten years ago. Today, they are a succesful photography duo, ranked amongst the top fashion photographers. Their work is about people: focus is on the individual, something that is rarely done in the fashion world. They throw the expectations of the viewer off balance, playing with perspective and proportions. In each photograph, the viewer is hit with a big surprise, but always one that is beautiful and exactly on the mark. 

The picture shown above is the press image of UNSEEN photo fair in Amsterdam. It is hanging in the lovely HOUSE Cafe on Istiklal. 

www.blommers-schumm.com