Join us in the ICP shop for a book signing and celebration of photographer Cansu Korkmaz' s latest release, Quite a While.
About the Book
The book Quite a While explores the idea of forming a new whole from the remnants of destruction by reinterpreting the emotional gesture of ripping a stack of photographs. Torn into a handful of piles by Korkmaz's partner after an exasperated exchange, the photographs are ripped from the center, allowing Korkmaz to repair the images by conjoining the halves together to create new images. The mending process speaks to the perseverance of relationships and an urge to re-contextualize frustrated memories, embracing the irreversible yet formative impacts of wounds. One of many such juxtapositions combines a plate of luscious peaches left in the couples' bedroom in Buenos Aires with a view of their kitchen in Uruguay; Korkmaz alternates the sizes according to the space occupied in her memory, allowing photographs that loomed more largely in her recollection to occupy more space speaks to the complexity of love and attachment and the mind's resilient capacity to reassemble, arrange, and mend.
Cansu Korkmaz is a Turkish-born visual artist based in Brooklyn. Her work explores themes of intimacy, memory, and identity through photography and mixed media.
Her work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as The Bridge and Tunnel Gallery (in-between, NY), Mixer Arts (LENS’19: Things Seen), Daire Gallery (Cure as Care), ALAN Istanbul, BAU Gallery, The Lives of Others at the International Photography Festival, UFAT (Signals and Systems), and Les Rencontres D’Arles (On the Frontiers of Freedom).
Korkmaz has presented solo exhibitions including Mini Çarşı - Mini Market at The Polygon Shooting Gallery in Turkey and Quite a While at SOHO20 Gallery in New York. She has participated in artist residencies at Arquetopia in Mexico, the School of Visual Arts, and Residency Unlimited in New York. During these residencies, she developed her long-term projects KINA and Quite a While, which were later exhibited at Equity Gallery and Gramercy Gallery in New York. She also attended a personal documentary workshop with Arya Hyytiainen at SALT.
In addition to her visual pratice, Korkmaz has published four photobooks: Quite a While, SILENCE, Schadenfreude, and Garip Bir Enerjin Var. Her work has been featured in publications such as Musee Magazine, Art Unlimited, Milliyet, Art Critical, Voice of America, VATAN, The Guide Istanbul, Orta Format, Bantmag, and Elele.
Allen Frame is a photographer, writer, and curator, based in New York and represented by Gitterman Gallery. He has released four books of photography, including Whereupon (Palermo Publishing, 2023); Innamorato (Meteoro Editions, 2023); Fever, (Matte Editions, 2021); and Detour, (Kehrer, 2001). He is a winner of the 2017/2018 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome and CEC Artslink’s Back Apartment Residency in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2019. He has been the curator of numerous exhibitions, including Locked in the amber of the and, a selection of work by Miguel Ferrando at Embajada Galeria in Puerto Rico; Goodbye, Again at Gala Art Center, Queens; and Luxe, Calme, Volupte at Candice Madey Gallery, with co-curator Antonio Sergio Bessa. He is an Adjunct Professor of Photography at Pratt Institute (MFA) and also teaches at the School of Visual Arts (BFA), the International Center of Photography in New York, and for Strudelmedialive.
