CONTEMPORARY CERAMIC ART MEETING
2ND INTERNATIONAL CERAMICS BIENNIAL
24 October - 24 November 2024 BURSA
EXHIBITION - COMPETITION APPLICATIONS ARE STARTING!
Quo Vadis/ Where Are You Going The Main Exhibition application deadline
has been extended to 18 September 2024.
Ates's Children Award application deadline has been extended to 10 September 2024.
QUO VADIS?
The youngest being on our planet, formed 4.5 billion years ago, is human. On the other hand, modern humans- homo sapiens, who emerged 200 thousand years ago, are the most complex beings on earth. It has been the being that has changed the world the most from the moment it emerged until today. From a humanist perspective, the well-being, freedom and autonomy of societies depend on the potential of human beings.
According to Jean-Paul Sartre, "The beginning of all existence is human. When a human being confronts himself, the feeling of being in the world covers the human being and then the individual defines himself within this perception." A person determines his own life with his own decisions. The choices he makes within his circumstances determine who he will become. Human beings realize their essence through their own actions and reveal their essence by shaping their existence. People have to realize their freedom through their own decisions and choices. “Man is condemned to his own freedom.”
We know where we are today as humans, but WHERE ARE WE GOING? Will the world still be a livable place in the future? What is it to be human? How does today's humanity shape the world? Can humans turn the future into an utopia by using their ability to find the truth?
Is it possible to make life better for all humans - and even other living creatures - to live well here and now, and to concentrate on leaving a better world for the future?
The work of art does not answer questions, but encourages them to be asked and opens a path for the search for meaning among contradictory answers. QUO VADIS (WHERE ARE YOU GOING) is also a question that today's people should ask themselves. Contemporary ceramic art, like all other art disciplines, is capable of asking effective questions. We are meeting at the 2nd International Ceramics Biennial, Bursa, to ask questions for the future of humanity.
Let's not forget that, "Every person is responsible for everything in front of everyone else. (Dostoevsky).
We are looking forward to seeing what kind of voice the artists, who are the witnesses and conscience of their age, will give with their works within the scope of this responsibility.
Mutlu Baskaya - Fatma Batukan Belge - Ilhan Marasali
Curators
GUEST OF HONOR
Prof. Gungor Guner
GUEST OF HONOR
Mehmet Tuzum Kizilcan
GUEST OF HONOR
Arek Szwed (Poland)
WHY HUMMINGBIRD?
“NO ONE IS TOO SMALL TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE”
GRETHA THUNBERG
The hummingbird on a blue background of the poster of the International Ceramics Biennial has a special meaning. Known as the smallest bird in the world, the hummingbird averages 6-7 cm. in length and weighs less than 2 grams. Their bright and colorful feathers add a huge sense of ostentatiousness to their small bodies. These tiny bodies are 90 kilometers per hour. They can fly fast and flap their wings 80 times per second. Their wings, which they usually flap horizontally rather than vertically, draw an infinity sign in the air. For this reason, hummingbirds are thought to symbolize eternity. Based on the creation myth, the Ohlone Native American people of Northern California believe that the hummingbird brought fire to Earth.
Unlike other art disciplines, the heart of ceramicists, who struggle with the nature of clay, the main material of ceramics, and strive to master the technique, beats like a hummingbird's heart during the creation, production and firing stages. The fire that this natural wonder bird brings to Earth fires their works and makes them permanent. Here is the hummingbird placed on the poster of the Biennial, wishing that this art will reach eternity with its wing.
Canan Temizelli
