Infidel Quarter, the first project of the Ahmet Güneştekin Foundation for Culture Arts and Education, was on exhibit with the contributions of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, Hitit Marble, Medicalpoint, Eminoğlu SBV, and Izmir Art. The exhibition was accompanied by a comprehensive book published by the Ahmet Güneştekin Foundation for Culture Arts and Education, edited by Şener Özmen.
Focusing on the history of migration and displacement around the main theme of exchange, the exhibition by the Ahmet Güneştekin Foundation for Culture Arts and Education in collaboration with the Izmir Metropolitan Municipality brings together the artist’s works from diverse disciplines. Curated by Şener Özmen, the show includes the artist’s sculptures wherein he completed metal forms with stones, along with his video works and large-sized installations of objects unique to their environment.
Infidel Quarter questions the idea behind mübadele (human exchange), which refers to the spatial, ethnic, and socio-cultural separation of groups that were generalized through specific definitions and how they were subjected to separate policies. Finding relations between the forced migrations that dominated the twentieth century and continue to spread throughout the world, and the population exchange that detached people on both coasts of the Aegean Sea from their past and forced them to build their lives elsewhere, the exhibition creates a multi-layered web of meaning and displays how phantoms of the past haunt the entire world.
