KUTLUG ATAMAN
Küba
with introduction by Bill Horrigan
Küba in Istanbul first emerged in the late 1960s as a neighbourhood of safe houses in a dangerous time. Today, Küba is still home to non-conformists of diverse ethnicity, religion and political persuasion united in their defiant disregard for state control.
Kutlug Ataman spent more than two years exploring Küba, mapping its physical and psychological terrain through the lives of forty of its inhabitants. These remarkable stories are the foundation for his most ambitious artwork to date: a multiple DVD installation sited in an old Post Office Sorting Office in London.
The Küba book takes the form of a family photo album, commemorating these DVD portraits using stills and edited transcripts.
Co-Published by: Artangel, London;
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh;
Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York;
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney;
T-B A21, Vienna;
Theater der Welt 2005, Stuttgart
ISBN 1-902201-16-7
176pp full colour, velvet bound photo album, with introduction text by Bill Horrigan and extracts from the testimonies of all forty Kuba residents
Price £24.99
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