Exposición
Artcore Gallery, Thessaloniki
Year
2015
Country
Greece
Comisario
Burak Bulut Yıldırım
Role
Curator & Lead Photographer
Medium
Black & white photography
TierrasDesnudo 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.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 — rock, water, vegetation, wind. The photographs in TierrasDesnudo 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.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 — whether the nude in landscape can avoid the pastoral tradition that has shaped centuries of European art — was addressed through this tonal discipline.TierrasDesnudo was the curator's first formal curatorial project. Unlike his subsequent curatorial work in Los desnudos de Estambul (Die Akt Galerie, Berlin, 2026), where he serves as sole curator without exhibiting his own photographic work, TierrasDesnudo 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.The thematic ground explored in TierrasDesnudo has continued to develop in the curator's ongoing series Ecotone, which extends the investigation of the body as a transitional zone between human and non-human environments.Selected Works & Exhibition Documentation
From the exhibition at Artcore Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2015.
