The exhibition seeks to ask when people first encounter the notion of an inventory list – was at school?
Was it at that time that this Kafkaesque universe where the inventory list is part of the inventory itself puzzled us?
Or at the time when the list caught our eyes while waiting in line at public offices in front of the fragile creatures called “public officers” who are ready to get annoyed all the time and once they are annoyed there is nothing else to be heard than: “No sir, no way!” “How can I initial the document without this signature?” “It cannot be signed by anyone else but Mr. Director.” And when did we notice that the inventory does not only consist of furniture and supplies but also of those who use them?
Sanatorium’s exhibition “Inventory” brings together artists, who realized that their first astonishment concerning inventory stocks transformed into shivers and who decided to convey these feelings into their field of struggle and stands against inventory lists with their own lists.
“Inventory” runs at Sanatorium Art Initiative from Nov. 27 to Dec. 25 and includes the works of Can Ertaş, Erol Eskici, Feza Velicangil, Gençay Aytekin, Guido Casaretto, Tunca Subaşı, and Zeyno Pekünlü.