Manuel Pelmuş and Alexandra Pirici's performative work proposes an overview of modern art by creating a dialogue between the history of discourses and important moments of modernity, via the enactment and combined choreography of three actors: Mustafa Karadağ, Buyan Yağmur Memişoğulları and Müge Olacak. While the work may be performed in different spaces throughout SALT Galata, as an ongoing action-exhibition, it relies on the same convention stationary objects and will be cited as such. It thus reflects on questions of immaterial production and its economics in museum and gallery space, as well as on the very notion of what it means to hold, or, specifically in SALT's case, to not hold, a permanent material collection that is traditionally seen as the cornerstone of legacy-building institutions such as the museum.

The Public Collection of Modern Art (2014) is loaned within the scope of SALT's current exhibition "One and the Many" as part of the L'Internationale museum confederation's reciprocal loan agreement with the Van Abbemuseum where it was initially commissioned for the exhibition "Confessions of the Imperfect 1848 – 1989 – Today." For the presentation at SALT Galata, Manuel Pelmuş has trained local performers, and the text components are in Turkish. The artist will give a talk, in English, about his practice and, where appropriate, will also touch on the concept of genuine copies. The work will be performed Wednesday to Sunday, for three hours each day, on the first floor of SALT Galata along with other spaces in the building. Manuel Pelmuş has a background in choreography, but more recently his work has crossed over into the visual-arts field. Alexandra Pirici has a background in choreography and performing arts, but her approach is undefined. Her practice merges different mediums, including film and music. Both artists have presented their work at institutions internationally and collaboratively represented Romania at the 55th Venice Biennale with the acclaimed project "An Immaterial Retrospective of the Venice Biennale" in 2013. The exhibition "One and the Many" is on view at SALT Galata until November 13.

When: Until Nov. 6

Where: SALT Galata, Istanbul