M HKA Ensembles

Installation, variable dimensions.

Collection: Courtesy of the artist and Rodeo, Istanbul.

Material is a series of ten displays, each of which is presented as a study for an alternative form to an existing public monument known by the artist. Each of the displays combines a sentence-long written description of the original monument, along with a model of what its proposed form would potentially look like. In contrast to the concise descriptions that also act as the titles of each display, the models themselves are more abstract in character, playfully reflexive of the traditional forms of identification as well as the changing symbolisms that public monuments have tended to have over time. As is characteristic for Issa’s artworks, her propositions are never determined as being for specific places or people, allowing strong interpretive qualities for the viewer. (NH)