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Memed Erdener

MEMED ERDENER

You Are Not One Of Us So You Are One Of Us Zilberman 24 May–26 July 2025 Dialogues, Istanbul
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Thoughts drifting between a baby and a post-historical machine. The pre-linguistic, wordless phase of a baby, and the claim that the end of history will be marked by silence. Wordlessness at the beginning, silence at the end. Memed Erdener’s solo exhibition, You Are Not One Of Us So You Are One Of Us, will be on display at Zilberman Dialogues. The exhibition will be on view from May 27 to July 26, 2025.

Otherness has been wiped off the face of the Earth. There is no outside anymore. With the inclusion of the outside in the inside, the borders of the inside have been erased. The desire for recognition has cancelled itself, since there is no one left to recognise. What has emerged is not unity within multiplicity, but sameness amidst a lack of difference. The human being is no longer that historical creature struggling between the master and the slave. The human being has become neither transformative will, nor an object in transformation. The human being, creating no conflict, posing no threat, and engendering no thought, has also failed to return to nature. At the end of history, the post-historical human being has become a machine that no longer produces meaning, and has abandoned its desire for recognition. The human being is no longer the subject of nature, nor the creator of culture. The human being has been merely reduced to a living organism. Alas, the end of history has revealed itself in silence.*

*This text was inspired by Alexandre Kojève’s thoughts.

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Exhibition view: Memed Erdener, You Are Not One Of Us So You Are One Of Us, Zilberman Dialogues, Istanbul (24 May–26 July 2025). Courtesy Zilberman. Photo: Kayhan Kaygusuz.
Exhibition view: Memed Erdener, You Are Not One Of Us So You Are One Of Us, Zilberman Dialogues, Istanbul (24 May–26 July 2025). Courtesy Zilberman. Photo: Kayhan Kaygusuz.
Exhibition view: Memed Erdener, You Are Not One Of Us So You Are One Of Us, Zilberman Dialogues, Istanbul (24 May–26 July 2025). Courtesy Zilberman. Photo: Kayhan Kaygusuz.
Exhibition view: Memed Erdener, You Are Not One Of Us So You Are One Of Us, Zilberman Dialogues, Istanbul (24 May–26 July 2025). Courtesy Zilberman. Photo: Kayhan Kaygusuz.
Exhibition view: Memed Erdener, You Are Not One Of Us So You Are One Of Us, Zilberman Dialogues, Istanbul (24 May–26 July 2025). Courtesy Zilberman. Photo: Kayhan Kaygusuz.
About the Artist

Memed Erdener first started producing work under the name of Extrastruggle in 1997. Extrastruggle produced extrovert works with highly distinct references. As befits its name, this was a project of a struggle against the dogmatic propaganda system of T.C. (Republic of Turkey). His works were in constant strife with state ideology, and often with the holy taboo of Kemalism. Memed also created a critical approach to other dogmatic structures that are aiming to replace Kemalism. In doing all this, his distant and depersonalised political engagement rendered his own identity invisible. This was perhaps why Extrastruggle was often mistaken as a ‘group’ project.

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About the Gallery

Zilberman Gallery, founded in Istanbul in 2008, stages 10–12 exhibitions every year at its main gallery spaces in Istanbul and Berlin and at the project space. The gallery occupies two separate floors of Mısır Apartment, one of the most famous examples of art nouveau architecture in Istanbul.

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İstiklal Cad. No.163
Mısır Apartmanı K.2 D.5
Beyoğlu
Istanbul
Turkiye
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Istanbul İstiklal Cad. No.163, Mısır Apartmanı K.2 D.5
Zilberman contemporary art gallery in Dialogues Istanbul Turkiye
Zilberman
İstiklal Cad. No.163, Mısır Apartmanı K.2 D.5, Beyoğlu, Istanbul, Turkiye
+90 212 251 1214
http://www.zilbermangallery.com

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