ISTANBUL AND YOUTH ART BIENNIAL EXHIBITION OPENING

ISTANBUL AND YOUTH ART BIENNIAL EXHIBITION OPENING

The Children and Youth Art Biennial, which has been held since 2010 in order to create a suitable climate for creative new generations, is organized with the aim of ensuring that art works produced by children and young people meet with the audience on a national and international platform, and to ensure that different geographies and cultures are expressed through the perspective of children.

Within the scope of the 6th Children and Youth Art Biennial, organized with the concept of "Meeting Point", NUN Schools students, as the Middle School Plastic Arts Club, carried out an installation work with the project titled "Ecological Destruction" in order to draw attention to the deterioration of the ecological system.

The endless consumption needs of individuals are growing against sustainable life, and the digital change, which is the point where the consumption societies that emerged with industrialization have reached today, directly increases the energy used. The environment we live in is not only an area where we live, but also an ecosystem that lives on millions of living things. Every trace we leave on the world also affects the environment, living things and our immovable cultural heritage. Excess consumption and the accompanying ecological problems directly or indirectly affect all living things. Therefore, our students wanted to draw attention to the system disorder, which began with environmental pollution and turned into a common problem of all countries.

“Piece of Peace”, one of our 4th grade PYP exhibition groups at NUN Schools, made a ceramic work under the title of “Equal Opportunity in Education” in the context of the transdisciplinary theme of “Sharing the Planet”. Piece of Peace was accepted to the Biennial with this ceramic work.

It was produced using the plate technique and the hand shaping technique on the ceramic. The work consists of an open ceramic book in the size of 30*40. On the work that will be exhibited on the pedestal, there are articles related to the right to education in the Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Child. At the same time, these articles in the book are voiced by the students and can be heard by the audience with the sound system placed inside the book.

The work was produced by children shaping the ceramic by hand. It is formed as a book. The fact that this form and its pages are in the shape of a pigeon's wing represents peace. In the text of this book, there is a section of the Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Child about the right to education. We see that some of the words are missing, fragmented and scattered on the ground. The cracks in the study, combined with the fragility of ceramics, carry a reference to inequality of opportunity in education. At the same time, the part of the Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Child about the right to education was voiced and included in the study. According to the report of UNESCO, 258 million children worldwide are out of school. In this study, it is aimed to raise awareness of children and audience about the inequality of opportunity in education.

Our 12th grade student Sueda has explored this persona with the metaphor of 'inside' in her interdisciplinary art work, which she calls Analyzing the Inside, starting from the fact that orange symbolizes the freedom within. The names of the parts of the work, which consists of three stages, are respectively: Inside, Intertwined Thoughts and Stopping for a Moment. In this work, which examines the persona inside, its relationship with the outside, and the meeting points of the duality that represents itself, it blends different disciplines such as visual arts, music and physics. Both our middle school and high school projects have been placed to be exhibited at the Mustafa Kemal Center.