Fresh Water Fish

Shadows and Silhouettes, Izmir, 2016

Based on the manifesto, the exhibition titled Shadows and Silhouettes, Gölgeler ve Siluetler, investigates the solutions to the gradual shift from grey to green and from shadows to actual emotions. The act of Responsible Design looks to leave the silhouettes aside and enter the nature of existence.

“Responsible Design was proposed as a way of designing to suggest solutions for social, cultural, and ecological sustainability.  What are the threats of industrialization, urbanization, consciousness of citizenship, its perception, and its habits for social and ecological balance? What could we notice further?” -Miné Ovacık

Fresh Water Fish, Tatlısu Balıkları, is a fact that emerges from industrial production; it emulates the endangered species in streams and lakes, which is caused by the chemicals and heavy metal pollution. The result of the negative effect on freshwater fish is pollution-based, and this leads to the extinction of those species, corrupting the ecological balance. These colourful and abstract fish were designed to call attention to this reality. They invite all of us to be aware of sustainable production: How could it be possible to spread ecological production and consumption?

Check the Student Works which were displayed in this exhibition as part of the Fall 2016 Responsible Design graduate course, coordinated by Mine

Artists:
Lale Dilbaş, Gören Bulut, Mine Ovacık, Mehmet Kahyaoğlu, Asadur İslam, Funda Altın, Can Tekin, Ayşe Karatay, Emre Mıhçılar, Egemen Baş, Merve Demirbağ, Özgün Özenir, Medusa Aslı, Tuğçe Çalışkan

Curated by Lale Dilbaş as the 1st Group Exhibition of Faculty Members and Graduate Students of Art and Design Faculty at Yaşar University, and held in The Rectorate Foyer Gallery at Selçuk Yaşar Campus (28 March - 03 April 2016). 

Poster Design by Ayşe Karatay
Photography by Lale Dilbaş