The Monster Called Curator Küratör Denen Canavar

'The Monster Called Curator' is curated by Senem Cagla Bilgin, which took a place in Siyah Beyaz Art Gallery, Ankara in 2014, and it brought nine multidisciplinary artists who work in different fields.

The curatorship which has not been able to create a professional network for its own as a field of profession and education in Turkey and has become simply 'fashionable' in recent years, is described as 'The authorised person who organises events and manages the Museum, Library, Exhibition, etc in Turkish Language Society. This term, acquainted in the 1980s Turkey, started to progress through the projects, exhibitions, themes, sponsors in art platforms of different functions with the 90s but today it almost lost its function.

The ideas that are simulated by curators, give an edge to the subjective and directive sides of a person who suggests manufacturing method to the artists, completely distinguishes artworks as merchandise, is free of philosophical and sociological justifications. Consequently, we are facing 'monsters' that lost its place between the artist and the crowd, describe content without criticism, that is fed by historical facts which continuously exist, subject the facts to loss of function and importance. At this point, the 'The Monster Called Curator' exhibition that reconstructs the relationship between the curator and artist rather than these descriptions, analyses the perception of the artists about the curator, follows a path of enhancement in every field with an interdisciplinary approach that involves painting, sculpture, video art and performing arts and asks; Who is this monster called curator?