JULIE RRAP in 'Suppose You Are Not' at Arter in Istanbul, Turkey

JULIE RRAP is part of 'Suppose You Are Not' a group exhibition at Arter in Istanbul, Turkey. The exhibition, drawn from the Ömer Koç Collection is curated by Selen Ansen, will be on view at Arter between 19 January–29 December 2024.

Suppose You Are Not, the first private collection exhibition held at Arter, spans a wide and deep territory not only in terms of the artworks and objects it encompasses but also the diverse mediums and themes that these artefacts are concerned with. Titled with inspiration from a line in Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat [Quatrains], the exhibition which brings together over 600 works, functional objects, rarities, furniture, and books produced in different periods explores the relations that emerge through the juxtapositions formed by a collection.

Suppose You Are Not delves into the passionate striving to collect and preserve the traces of humanity, the good and the evil, the ephemeral gestures, states, allusions and movements ranging from the most sublime to the most mundane, from the most permanent to the most ephemeral, which manage to persist by being conveyed from the dead to the living.