Venerdì 3 dicembre 2010 alle ore 19.00 presso la Libreria Nima a Roma sarà presentato il libro fotografico "Taranto mi ricorda istintivamente Istanbul" (edit@, 2008).

Intervengono l’autrice del libro Gianna Tarantino e la fotografa turca Elif Kork con una selezione di fotografie delle due realtà a confronto. Presenta Luigi Turinese.

Commento musicale a cura di Piero Grassini e Giovanni D’Ancicco.

L'esposizione resterà aperta ai visitatori fino a venerdì 10 dicembre.

This symbol belongs to the first exhibition of Elif Kork that was realized in 2001; the photos were presented YIN-YANG, inspired by the symbol of all oppositions in life from far East, and CHESS, based on the game originated in Persian Ages, that symbolizes the struggle between man and woman, two sexualities in contrast.

She defended the blanks and inactivity in life. According to her, life is like a chessboard as it has black and white spaces. On the other hand, everything in the nature has something against to itself in itself. Life is a struggle and if you do nothing, you don’t get hurt and tired.

Life is like a chess game; when you begin to move, your life is shaped according to your previous steps. There are three characters in the play of life: “woman and man struggle to each others and a spectator doesn’t move”.

German philosopher M. Heidegger and his concept of Das Man is represented an important source of inspiration for her at first. Also inspiring were the Ferdydurke of W. Gombrowicz and the character of Prokrustes in Greek Mythology.

The human being is modelled by the other people that somehow contribute in giving a shape to him. Also the representation of the human is strongly dependant on the others. The result is that every human has everything and nothing in himself like in the symbol of YIN-YANG or like the opposite colours of the squares on a chessboard.