Pinar Öğrenci´s films stretch the walls of the house into geographies of migration and memory, from snow-covered streets to the multilayered lifeworlds of the village of Miks. Her cinematic language attends to the rhythms of daily life as much as to the tremors of history. In her work, the house becomes a portal not only to elsewhere, but to otherwise.
Villa Romana Collection
The publication of the winners of the Villa Romana Prize has taken the shape of four distinct yet interrelated booklets – an editorial series continuing the tradition of the institution to offer a space for the dissemination and reverberation of the research and work of the Villa Romana Fellows after their ten-months residency in Florence.
Each year, four selected artists are invited to live and work in the same house that, since 1905, generations of artists have continuously inhabited. They always come as a group – a constellation of four people – but all as singular artists. The opportunity of yearly publishing their work in a bundle of four separate books and within an open series allows for a larger combination of echoes across the generations of Villa Romana Fellows. A further occasion for “being singular plural.”
Pınar Öğrenci
Contributions by Elena Agudio, Mistura Allison, Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu, Firat Demir (Poem)
Design by Archive Ensemble
Co-published with Villa Romana Fellow 2023
The publication has been financed by Der Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, Deutsche Bank Stiftung, Bao Stiftung.