The Room Project

İstanbul Modern Photography Gallery exhibits the photographs of Annette Merrild shot in 9 big cities of 9 countries in her new exhibition “The Room Project”, aiming to display the “differences and similarities between nations, geographies, cultures”.

Event date : 5 May-30 August 2009

Place : İstanbul Modern Museum

İstanbul Modern Photography Gallery exhibits the photographs of Annette Merrild shot in 9 big cities of 9 countries in her new exhibition “The Room Project”, aiming to display the “differences and similarities between nations, geographies, cultures”.

Annette Merrild composes portraits from society, by taking images from the interiors of houses with her camera in her project that she describes as “a sort of anthropological journey from one end of Europe to the other”. In the portrait series which follows the still life styles of old masters, furniture and goods also take their place.

“The Room Project” enables the viewer to see special rooms belonging to people from different cultures and enables tourists to live through an experience that they normally wouldn’t live through. With the context of the project which took four years and was based on her experience as a foreigner during her education at the Hamburg Academy of Arts, Annette Merrild photographed the sitting rooms of her neighbours first in Hamburg, and then in New York and Copenhagen, who lived in the same building. Inspired with the effect these photography series had on people, she created the “The Room Project”. Within two years, she visited Varsaw, Barcelona, Tallinn, Lyon, Manchester and Istanbul.