Agora is the last piece in a trilogy of photographic series. The trilogy starts from the rural areas with Habitat, moves into the peripheral suburbs with Shell and at the end reaches the city squares, thus the centre of the city.

PİLOT Gallery is hosting Serkan Taycan’s solo exhibition Agora between 26 May and 4 July. The Agora series, which was part of the Pavilion of Turkey at the last International Architecture Exhibition of Venice Biennale traces the collective memory through the squares of Istanbul. The photographs are shown in Istanbul for the first time.

Agora is the last piece in a trilogy of photographic series the artist has been working on since 2008. The trilogy starts from the rural areas with Habitat, moves into the peripheral suburbs with Shell and at the end reaches the city squares, thus the centre of the city. Taycan aims at constructing a narrative on the urbanization in relation to the geographical terrain he lives in. The walking trail that he proposes in his ongoing project Between Two Seas – supported by the 13th Istanbul Biennial – allows one to experience physically the periphery of the city that he photographed in the Shell series as well as the environmental change the area has been subject to. Serkan Taycan brings these several works together under the title Fault Line, a multi-layered project that intends to question, trace and record the social and political transformation the region was undergoing over the last decade.Continue Reading..