7th International Istanbul Biennial: egofugal: fugue from ego for the next emergence

The 7th International Istanbul Biennial organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts curated by Yuko Hasegawa under the title EGOFUGAL: Fugue from Ego for the Next Emergence hosted 63 artists including 9 collaborative groups.

The 7th International Istanbul Biennial raised the question of How we can liberate ourselves from our egos while maintaining self-esteem. Egofugality is not selflessness, or self-sacrifice, or compromise. Yuko Hasegawa perceives Egofugality, as a worldview in the three “c” visions, which are a collective consciousness, collective intelligence, and co-existence verified by strong egofugal subjects. The three c elements will eventually replace the three m elements man, money, and materialism that played key roles in the progress of 20th-century civilisation and which simultaneously spawned considerable problems and sickness.