eda&karl
works / media
works
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Storgatan 38
Storgatan 38 pop up is a curious, engaged, non-hierarchical and fun pop up artisticspace in Tranås. A team of international artists: Eda Emirdağ (Turkey), Karl Larsson (Sweden), and other artists invites local participants in a series ofcollaborations in artistic activities such as photography, sound, writing, bookmaking,collage, performance,installation and 3D printing. A collaboration between Tranås Municipality and Kultivera
Tranås Stories
One late evening, Muhamed enters the premises at Stogragan 38 and asks what we are doing, he tells us hisstory. This story gave us the idea to create Tranås Stories - Tranåsstories, they are stories that developed through the meeting betweenartist and Tranås residents.
Muhammad Moghaddam
gives the visitor an insight into how Muhamed came to Tranås and what Tranås represents to him. A personal destiny that brings to mind far beyond what is experiencedon the spot, proof of a contemporary era where nothing is black orwhite, where malice has been overcome by goodwill. A person who got anew home.
Frank Bergsten
A collection of 6 photographs from aseries begun in collaboration with Fra Beecher (former artist-in-residence), the photographs Frank has assigned titles inthe form of one sentence per image. The artworks reflect honesty inand around a person's encounters with his contemporaries, this without losing the twinkle in his eye, those of you who have an eye on the cultural map in Tranås know that Frank Bergsten also published three series collections.
Reza Nikoo
The work Minimarket is a projectstarted (not finished) by Reza, a work that shows the diversity Tranås consists of. A work in and around people's attempts atadaptation and the will to become part of the new. The Minimarket haschanged owners many times during the time that Reza lived in Tranås,owners who came to Sweden and Tranås because of conflicts and wars.In the work, these individuals are represented by flags.
Daniel Haglund
In the work Hand of Art, Dan has visualized a thought that is part of a future book. Hand of Art has broken through the canvas of the painting, what is actually behindthis canvas? The future book that Dan writes will provide answers tothis. Dan is a diligent photographer based in Tranås.
Linda Bergkvist Aspring
The video piece is based on a photograph and a poem that Linda made. Linda is a photographing poet who in this work combined the two expressions and created more thanone image and text. An encounter, beyond both text and image, givesthe viewer a journey beyond the mists.
Collective Memory
Eda gave out four disposable analogue cameras with a theme, Blond, Home, Nature, Loneliness to different Tranås residents. The result of 17 people's capture of memories iswhat is displayed on the wall.
Guerilla Photography Workshop
Eda held a series of workshops whereparticipating people were guided in how to use the camera to takephotographs. You can see the result here on the screen.
Visual Spa Workshop
Fuji Hoffmann held a workshop whereparticipants could learn and try out the Visual Spa concept. What yousee on the screen are three results of this workshop.
Art bingo
Karl's performance/workshop where benefit is mixed with fun, bingo-playing people of all ages are given a cultural injection. Participating artists are apart from Karl, Eda and Kasia.
If I ruled the world
Karl's idea is based on anyone decidingthe world, you step in front of the White House and present your thoughts or visions of how you want the future to be.
Night photography workshop
Karl shows the camera's possibilitiesof capturing light, based on the camera technology, creativity hasbeen allowed to flow freely. The result is images of Tranås whichare imbued with a desire and curiosity to experiment with the camera.
Colors of Tranås
Eda held a series of color-themed workshops as the basis for the photography of Tranås, there are 196 images on display. The Green, Yellow, Red and Blue Tranås is what the viewer can contemplate.
Window studio II
Eda Emirdağ's project, Window studio is a continuation of previous works by Eda, this time Karl has shared space with Eda. The project aims to show passers-by how an artist works. During the month of August, Eda and Karl worked in the Window studio, where Tranås residents could follow an artist's workflow.
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“Sweden - İsveç”
As an extension of Karl Larsson's collaborative working practice, PUUT library worked with other artists, poets and sound artists in the library project, and for the first time, he used another photographer's photographs in his library, together with Eda Emirdağ.
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Window studio II
Window Studio is a space where an art gallery’s window display is repurposed, so instead of showcasing the art piece itself, the viewer sees the artist’s creative process.It evolves around the self-criticism of art becoming a consuming item. The performance took place for 1 month. Karl Larsson was invited as a collaborator in Eda Emirdağ's performance project.
2018, ‘’Pop-Up Centrum’’, Trånas, Småland, Sweden ( w/ Karl Larsson )
2017 ‘’Introspective’’, GaleriBu Galata, İstanbul, Turkey
media
About
eda & karl
Eda Emirdağ and Karl Larsson are visual artists who work specifically in photography and met at the artist residency program called ‘’Kultivera’’ in Sweden 2016. Both artists produce collaborative and participatory art projects in their practices. At the same time, the similarity of the ways of using photography and the conceptual production styles feed each other and create projects that produce other contradictions and systems. While the two artists produce projects that cover and include each other in their individual productions as a duo, they also produce social projects that create a single aesthetic value or create a community from the two artists.
upcoming / ongoing
upcoming
Ankara
Montag
TekTrope
sezon
derinprint studio & Kadir citak
ada riso studio
ongoing
- Lost Heritage
-Layers on Layers
ongoing
-Layers on Layers
In “Layers upon Layers’’ Eda Emirdağ imitating Karl Larsson's photographs taken during the artist residency at Kultıvera.
In order to do a similar thing in Ankara, Karl Larsson will take photographs in the new city he will meet, while Eda Emirdağ will use these photographs to examine the images from the library of Ka Atölye where they are located and imitate them with drawings.
The two artists want to continue the small and random aesthetic that emerged when they came together in Sweden in other cities and libraries. Two artists practise based on photography but also they using different print techniques and for this project they are doing collaboration with https://www.douprintstudio.com ( Istanbul and Ankara) lithography print for the two different aesthetic in a one way.
-Lost Heritage
It is a pattern work inspired by Eda Emirdağ's 4800 photographic installation called "1TB" and Karl Larsson's 2008 photographic installation called "Fritera Ofog", and references the similar works that the artists produced in the same year without being aware of each other.
The work that the two artists created by taking advantage of the cultural heritage and cultural differences in weaving between Sweden and Turkey in order to bring this similarity to a single area, is an effort of two artists to bring similar works together with culture.
In order to investigate the meanings and weaving styles of the patterns and weaving styles in the weaving culture and Turkish culture, which caught Karl Larsson's attention during his visit to Istanbul, the artists bring together their photographs in a cultural context in a single area. Contrary to the permanence of cultural heritage, photographs printed with thermal printing are produced to be destroyed.
