Work in Progress

Galeria Francisco Fino is pleased to share Ali Kazma’s participation in the group show Work in Progress with his work Noah’s Ark. On view at Arter Museum, Istambul, the exhibition can be visited until 4 October 2026.

 

Curated by Emre Baykal, Work in Progress articulates a selection from over three hundred works produced with Arter’s support within the scope of its exhibitions programme, which began in 2010 at its former building on Istiklâl Street and continues in Dolapdere since September 2019, alongside new works created specifically for this occasion.

 

Kazma’s Noah’s Ark was filmed at Arter, shortly before the opening of its new building. Ali Kazma, who proposed recording the processes of installing the inaugural exhibitions in the newly constructed, still-empty galleries, visited the building over the course of two months, bearing witness with his camera to the crews at work. In the broadest sense, Noah’s Ark focuses on the transformation of empty space through the collaboration of “art” and “craft” encompassed by the concept of tekhne, which expresses the human capacity to produce. The film brings us back to the production processes which precede the actual experience of the visitor and remain unwitnessed.

 

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21 Apr 2026