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Showing work in Turkey is a personal affair for Etel Adnan: a homecoming of sorts. Of her childhood, the Beirut-born painter – also a poet, tapestry designer, novelist, teacher of aesthetics and librettist – has said: ‘We saw ourselves as an Ottoman family.’ Adnan’s grandfather was a Turkish soldier. Her Damascus-born father, Assaf Kadri, was governor of Smyrna under Ottoman rule. At the Istanbul Biennial in 2015 Adnan exhibited Family Memoirs on the End of the Ottoman Empire (2015),...

Pera Museums new exhibition brings together 60 years of work by artist and poet Etel Adnan Etel Adnan, Late Afternoon, 2020. Engraving, 35 Editions, 38 x 44 cm © Etel Adnan. Courtesy: Galerie Lelong & Co. Paris. ISTANBUL .-Pera Museum presents the exhibition “Etel Adnan: Impossible Homecoming”, which brings together 60 years of work by artist and poet Etel Adnan, whose life spanned nearly a century. The exhibition can be visited through August 8, 2021. Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Pera ...