Artists from Istanbul represented in Double Crescent are Hale Tenger, whose edgy assemblage works,
addressing issues of gender and identity, have been exhibited at the biennials in Saõ Paolo, Johannesburg and Istanbul; Ali Kazma, whose powerful videos of people at their occupations have been shown at the Istanbul Biennial; Ayşe Erkmen, whose witty
architectural interventions have been featured at Art Basel, the Hamburger Bahnhof and the Sharjah Biennial; Gülsün Karamustafa, a multimedia artist whose research - based installations on
subjects such as nomads and refugees have been shown at Documenta, the Salzburger Kunstverein and the Walker Art Center and Nazım Ünal Yılmaz whose large - scale figurative paintings have been exhibited at the Kunsthaus Stade in Germany and Contemporary Istanbul.
For the past three decades, British artist Paul Winstanley has been painting the future past — that utopian
architectural imaginary of the postwar years concretized in a range of quasi - public / quasi-private milieus, from the airport to the hospital — making only the most incremental variations in his
address of the
subject matter from one show to the next.