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Curatorial Project \u2014 2015<\/p>\n

LandsNude<\/h1>\n

The body in landscape, photographed as an encounter between flesh and earth.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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Exhibition<\/span>
\nArtcore Gallery, Thessaloniki<\/span><\/div>\n
Year<\/span>
\n2015<\/span><\/div>\n
Country<\/span>
\nGreece<\/span><\/div>\n
Curator<\/span>
\nBurak Bulut Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m<\/span><\/div>\n
Role<\/span>
\nCurator & Lead Photographer<\/span><\/div>\n
Medium<\/span>
\nBlack & white photography<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n
LandsNude<\/em> was a group exhibition presented at Artcore Gallery in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2015. The project brought together a group of photographers developed through workshops with the curator, with whom he had been working on the relationship between the body and the natural environment. Their work was presented together in a gallery context for the first time, on an international platform outside Turkey.<\/p>\n

The exhibition’s core proposition was structural: that the nude body, photographed within a landscape rather than inside a studio, ceases to be a subject isolated from context. Instead, it becomes continuous with the material world around it \u2014 rock, water, vegetation, wind. The photographs in LandsNude<\/em> were made without studio lighting, without staged compositions, and without post-production intervention. What the camera recorded was what was present: a body, a place, and the light between them.<\/p>\n

Every image in the exhibition was in black and white. This was not a stylistic preference; it was a strategy to remove the chromatic register that can sentimentalise landscape photography. Without colour, the body becomes topography and the topography becomes anatomy. The question the exhibition asked \u2014 whether the nude in landscape can avoid the pastoral tradition that has shaped centuries of European art \u2014 was addressed through this tonal discipline.<\/p>\n

LandsNude<\/em> was the curator’s first formal curatorial project. Unlike his subsequent curatorial work in The Nudes of Istanbul<\/em><\/a> (Die Akt Galerie, Berlin, 2026), where he serves as sole curator without exhibiting his own photographic work, LandsNude<\/em> placed the curator’s own photographs within the selection alongside the participating photographers. The curatorial development since then, toward a clearer separation of curatorial and artistic roles, reflects a deliberate evolution in methodology across a decade of continued practice.<\/p>\n

The thematic ground explored in LandsNude<\/em> has continued to develop in the curator’s ongoing series Ecotone<\/em><\/a>, which extends the investigation of the body as a transitional zone between human and non-human environments.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Selected Works & Exhibition Documentation<\/h2>\n

From the exhibition at Artcore Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2015.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>

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Participating Photographers<\/h2>\n

The exhibition presented works by eight photographers in total: the curator and seven photographers developed through his workshop practice in Istanbul. Two of the seven were women. The group had been working together on the relationship between the body and the natural environment for an extended period preceding the exhibition, making work across locations in Turkey and Greece.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Context & Approach<\/h2>\n

The decision to present the exhibition in Thessaloniki rather than Istanbul was deliberate. Greece shares with Turkey a long history of the nude in art, from classical Mediterranean sculpture to modern photography, but in 2015 its public and institutional context for photographic nudes was more open than Turkey’s. The geographical proximity and the cultural continuity made Artcore Gallery a meaningful first venue for a project that had been developed in Turkey but could not, at that moment, find a gallery platform at home.<\/p>\n

This logic of “producing in Turkey, presenting internationally” became a recurring structural feature of the curator’s later practice. It reappears, in a more explicit and politically articulated form, in The Nudes of Istanbul<\/em> eleven years later.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Thematic Continuation<\/h2>\n

The body-in-landscape inquiry opened by LandsNude<\/em> has continued in the curator’s own fine art practice through the series Ecotone<\/em><\/a>. Where LandsNude<\/em> was a bounded group project with a specific exhibition framework, Ecotone<\/em> is an ongoing solo investigation that extends the same conceptual ground across a longer duration and a wider range of environments, drawing on the theoretical framework of Donna Haraway’s natureculture<\/em> and related contemporary ecological thought.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Related Work<\/h2>\n