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Perched (German Edition) - FeleksAn Onar (English, German, Paperback)
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Perched (German Edition) - FeleksAn Onar (English, German, Paperback)
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Accompanying an exhibition at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen
Dresden, this publication presents the glass swallow works Perched,
created by the artist Feleksan Onar. While drawing on sources from
her personal history as well as collective memory, Feleksan Onar's
works in glass deal with notions of identity, constructed
narratives, historical relations and impacts of politics on
society. In her recent project Perched, her story-telling in glass
reflects on the Syrian refugee situation. Triggered by witnessing
the helpless refugees strolling around the streets of Istanbul,
after being forced to leave their homelands, Perched has been
exhibited in the Pergamon Museum, Berlin, the New Jersey Visual
Arts Center and the Victoria& Albert Museum, London. The work
was interpreted as "a visceral expression of the fact that in spite
of differences of religion, culture, and individual histories, what
we all want most is to be in the place we call home," by the art
critic Lisa Morrow. A reading of Louis de Bernieres' novel Birds
Without Wings was an inspiration for Onar to create the series.
Glass works, inspired by a book, create its own history over time
and turn into a book again. This book marks the most comprehensive
publication on Perched to date. The result here is a complementary
structure addressing the aesthetic and political concepts inherent
in Feleksan Onar's art. Contiguity and fragility are the core of
this project and provides the form for this book. Newly
commissioned essays initiate sections that engage particular
aspects of Onar's work. Renowned author Louis de Bernieres
contributes a short story; Prof. Dr. Stefan Weber, Mariam
Rosser-Owen and Stefanie Bach propose a reading of Perched through
the exhibitions in the Pergamon Museum, the Victoria& Albert
Museum and the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden; and Nadania
Idriss questions how is art supposed to foster a culture of peace
and muses on being perched. Producing glass art, to use Onar's own
words, "not only expresses my past and present, but also my
anxieties and expectations for future. Through glass, I speak,
breathe and live." This is the story of birds standing together in
different places with their various colors and holding a vital
crisis in their silence, breath and life.
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