{"id":12861,"title":"H-Facts: Hospitality/hostility ","dimensions":"79 x 106 x 19cm","date_begin":"2003-01-01","material":"Hotel sign","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":72,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":23,"stream_count":0,"collection":"","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":"2007-01-01","reference":"","stream_count_app":64,"permalink":"h-facts-hospitality-hostility","description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"category":{"en":"Object","nl":"Object","fr":"Objet"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/029/974/large/H%C3%BCseyin_Bahri_Alptekin_exhibition_M_HKA20015_photoM_HKAclinckx17.jpg?1446835675","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis series of 20 hotel signs was inspired by the many photographs Alptekin took during his night-time walks around Istanbul during the early 1990s. He initially took photographs of hotel signs in the Tarlabaşı and Laleli districts of Istanbul, which had seen rapid transformation due to the influx of migrants from places such as the Ex-Soviet Republics, Iraq, Iran and Eastern Turkey. Alptekin saw these rather basic hotels as part of a new feral underbelly in society, symptomatic of the more makeshift forms of economic globalisation appearing in Turkey after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Adopting the names of cities elsewhere, these hotels were transitory spaces for first-generation post-Soviet businessmen, backpackers, salesmen, prostitutes, or those waiting for papers to enter Western Europe. Their names offer a superficial dream of a distant place, yet in reality they were extremely ramshackle. The title of these works reflect philosopher Jacques Derrida\u0026rsquo;s writings on the relationship between \u0026lsquo;hospitality\u0026rsquo; and \u0026lsquo;hostility\u0026rsquo;, as two inextricably connected notions. Alptekin carefully designed the name and style of each sign before they were handcrafted by local sign-makers in Istanbul.\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eDe inspiratiebron voor deze reeks van 20 hotelborden waren de vele foto\u0026#39;s die Alptekin rond 1990 nam tijdens zijn nachtelijke wandelingen in Istanbul. Oorspronkelijk nam hij foto\u0026#39;s van hotelborden in de wijken Tarlabaşı en Laleli, die door de instroom van migranten uit gebieden zoals de ex-Sovjetrepublieken, Irak, Iran en Oost-Turkije een snelle transformatie hadden ondergaan. Alptekin zag deze nogal elementaire hotels als een afspiegeling van een nieuwe woeste onderbuik in de maatschappij, symptomatisch voor de meer ge\u0026iuml;mproviseerde vormen van economische globalisering die na de ineenstorting van de Sovjet-Unie opdoken in Turkije. Deze hotels kozen de namen van buitenlandse steden. Ze waren een soort tijdelijke ruimte voor de eerste generatie post-Sovjetondernemers, rugzaktoeristen, verkopers, prostituees, of voor zij die wachtten op papieren om West-Europa binnen te geraken. Hun namen beloven een oppervlakkige droom van een verre plek, maar in werkelijkheid waren de hotels extreem vervallen. Zo weerspiegelt de titel van deze werken de geschriften van de filosoof Jacques Derrida over de relatie tussen gastvrijheid (\u003cem\u003ehospitality\u003c/em\u003e) en vijandigheid (\u003cem\u003ehostility\u003c/em\u003e), twee onlosmakelijk verbonden begrippen. Alptekin ontwierp de naam en de stijl van elk bord zorgvuldig. Daarna werden ze met de hand geschilderd door lokale bordenmakers in Istanbul.\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eCette s\u0026eacute;rie de 20\u0026nbsp;enseignes d\u0026rsquo;h\u0026ocirc;tel s\u0026rsquo;inspire des multiples photographies qu\u0026rsquo;Alptekin a prises durant ses promenades nocturnes \u0026agrave; travers Istanbul au d\u0026eacute;but des ann\u0026eacute;es\u0026nbsp;90. Il a d\u0026rsquo;abord photographi\u0026eacute; des enseignes lumineuses d\u0026rsquo;h\u0026ocirc;tels \u0026agrave; Tarlabaşı et \u0026agrave; Laleli, des quartiers de la ville ayant subi une transformation rapide suite au flux d\u0026rsquo;immigrants venus des anciennes r\u0026eacute;publiques sovi\u0026eacute;tiques, d\u0026rsquo;Irak, d\u0026rsquo;Iran et de l\u0026rsquo;est de la Turquie. Alptekin consid\u0026eacute;rait ces h\u0026ocirc;tels bas de gamme comme le reflet du nouveau ventre mou de la soci\u0026eacute;t\u0026eacute;, de la f\u0026eacute;rocit\u0026eacute; symptomatique des formes les plus improvis\u0026eacute;es de la mondialisation \u0026eacute;conomique apparues en Turquie apr\u0026egrave;s la chute de l\u0026rsquo;Union sovi\u0026eacute;tique. Adoptant les noms des villes lointaines, ces h\u0026ocirc;tels \u0026eacute;taient une sorte d\u0026rsquo;espace de transition pour une premi\u0026egrave;re g\u0026eacute;n\u0026eacute;ration d\u0026rsquo;hommes d\u0026rsquo;affaires post-sovi\u0026eacute;tiques, pour des routards, des repr\u0026eacute;sentants de commerce, des prostitu\u0026eacute;(e)s ou des personnes en attente de papiers pour entrer en Europe occidentale. Si les noms de ces h\u0026ocirc;tels sugg\u0026egrave;rent un r\u0026ecirc;ve superficiel de lieu lointain, la r\u0026eacute;alit\u0026eacute; qu\u0026rsquo;ils offraient n\u0026rsquo;\u0026eacute;tait que profond d\u0026eacute;labrement. Ainsi, le titre de ces \u0026oelig;uvres fait r\u0026eacute;f\u0026eacute;rence aux \u0026eacute;crits de Jacques Derrida sur la relation entre hospitalit\u0026eacute; et hostilit\u0026eacute;, deux notions inextricablement li\u0026eacute;es. Alptekin a minutieusement r\u0026eacute;fl\u0026eacute;chi au nom et au style donn\u0026eacute;s \u0026agrave; chaque enseigne avant de les faire produire artisanalement \u0026agrave; Istanbul par des fabricants locaux.\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":2670,"name":"Hüseyin Bahri  Alptekin","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}