Why Are Elephants Angry? The text in the book published for the exhibition was written by Evrim Altuğ.
John Berger's "Why Do We Care for Animals?" As stated in the text, the existence of public zoos, which became widespread in the 19th century, was more than just a spectacular experience, it was a symbol that confirmed the power of the government while supporting the colonial tradition with the display of exotic animals captured and brought from distant and foreign countries. In this exhibition, named after elephants known for their strong memories, Why Are Elephants Angry? Through the question, the interaction of nature and humans with each other, power dynamics and the consequences of man's ambition to dominate his environment, playing with these dynamics, are examined closely.
In the beginning, as in the murals in the Lascaux cave, when human beings and animals were whole in each other's existence, man's attempt to escape from this unity to gain superiority over nature through violence resonates with an internalized courage in which the brute force used by man against nature also encourages him to use violence against other people. Çavuldur, who processes the meanings of violence taken from different contexts with the codes of today's world, unleashes a story that moves from the borders of the outside world to its own core. While creating this story, every information, memory and all the possibilities of time that contain the unlimited memory of the universe; Sometimes it is preserved in a woman's hair, sometimes in the veined surface of a leaf or in the molecules of a lava stone, never to be lost.
Who is Lale Çavuldur?
He continued his art education in Germany, which started at the Painting Department of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in 1983-1986. After studying Painting and Sculpture at the Karlsruhe State Academy of Fine Arts in 1987-1991, she graduated with a Master's degree.
She continued her master's degree at the Leipzig Academy of Fine Arts between 1994-1996. She returned to Turkey in 1997 and continued her productions as an independent artist in the fields of dance performance, installation, sculpture and painting. In 2005, she started working in the academic field at Anadolu University. She initiated the establishment of the Paper Making Workshop and gave workshop lessons. He gave lectures at ITU Ayazağa campus in 2010-2011. 2007-2021 He served as a faculty member at the paper workshop he founded at FMV Işık University, Faculty of Fine Arts, and gave paper art and design courses. She continued her doctorate program at Marmara University Institute of Educational Sciences between 2012-2018. She completed her thesis titled "Use of Recycled Paper Pulp in Visual Arts Education and Its Effects on Environmental Education: An Action Research" and received her doctorate. He mainly uses paper in his works produced in the fields of installation, painting and sculpture, and follows an attitude that combines the environment and paper art with a method that produces and transforms his own material.
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