{"id":7838,"date":"2025-05-16T20:52:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T20:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugbih.ba\/?p=7838\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T07:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T07:54:11","slug":"gulan-and-celebic-escape-form-serail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugbih.ba\/en\/2025\/05\/16\/gulan-and-celebic-escape-form-serail\/","title":{"rendered":"Genco Gulan & Yeliz Celebic: The Escape from the Serail"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Escape from the Serail<\/span><\/h4>\n

Exhibition and Performance<\/span>
\nGenco Gulan & Yeliz Celebic<\/span><\/h4>\n
The National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina<\/span><\/h5>\n
Opening: May 20 at 8 pm<\/span><\/h5>\n
May 20 – June 6, 2025<\/span><\/h5>\n

\u201cThe Escape from the Serail (Die Entfu\u0308hrung aus dem Serail)\u201d is an art project based on the research of the interdisciplinary interaction between Genco Gulan from Istanbul and Yeliz Celebic from Sarajevo. This project refers to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera \u201cAbduction from the Seraglio\u201d (1782) and relates it with Sarajevo. Gulan and Celebic who have been working together for almost 20 years will realize \u2018The Escape from The Serail\u2019especially for the city and the National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina.<\/span><\/p>\n

For this project Genco Gulan is making a new series of paintings. His paintings, illustrate different palaces around<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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the world, including the Versailles and the one in Fatehpur Sikri with many others. The artist also references the deep-rooted history of Sarajevo and its architectural structures. By referring to the word \u201csarail\u201d he also refers to the name and memories of Sarajevo, which became the \u201cOlympic City\u201d (1984). The figures in Gulan’s paintings seem to be running but we do not know why and where they are running to or where they are running from…<\/span><\/p>\n

Yeliz Celebic’s performance focuses on the embodiment of emotions, in dialogue with Genco Gulan’s concept on the functioning of architectural bodies. Her performance seeks to invoke an emotional response through the arias of the role of Constanze in the opera \u201cAbduction from the Seraglio\u201d. Celebic quotes her as saying;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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\u201cTraurigkeit ward mir zum Loose, Weil ich dir entrissen bin. Gleich der wurmzernagten Rose, Gleich dem<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Gras im Wintermoose, Welkt mein banges Leben hin.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cUnhappiness has become my lot. Because I have been torn from you. Like the rose eaten by worms, like the grass that withers in winter. My wretched life is fading away.\u201d (From the libretto penned by Gottlieb Stephanie, based on Christoph Friedrich Bretzner\u2019s libretto)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Celebic transforms these words into her performance with the soundtrack composed by French sound & audiovisual artist Armand Lesecq by asking the question, \u201cIs it possible to look at the emotions of others?\u201d. By becoming a metaphorical narrative that observes how the feelings are conveyed or carried, this work also seeks a way of remembering – where we reunite with our beloved ones.<\/span><\/p>\n

To conclude, Genco Gulan and Yeliz Celebic’s art project \u201cThe Escape from the Serail (Die Entfu\u0308hrung aus dem Serail)\u201d examines the duality arising from the concept of orientalism through the representations of the acts of escape, reunion and centrifugal, aims to go beyond words and images and delve deeper into complex realities.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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