SAHA provided support for the acquisition of Nil Yalter’s Turkish Immigrants (Tower Of Babel) 1975-2016 for The Museum Of Modern Art (MoMA)’s permanent collection. The installation emerges from her long engagement with Turkish immigrants in France, specifically those that moved there during the postwar period to contribute their labor to economic reconstruction. In 2016, the artist revisited her archive of the original polaroid portraits, using digital editing tools to scramble and efface details, mimicking the distortions endemic to both digital and analog technologies as well as the continuing effacement of migrant voices and rights around the world. Shown in the Paris Biennial in 1977, Turkish Immigrants (Tower of Babel) was also part of the group show Signals: How Video Transformed the World, curated by Stuart Comer and Michelle Kuo between 5 March – 8 July 2023 at MoMA.

About The Museum Of Modern Art (MoMA)

The rich and varied collection of The Museum of Modern Art constitutes one of the most comprehensive and panoramic views into modern art. From an initial gift of eight prints and one drawing, The Museum of Modern Art’s collection has grown to approximately 200,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, media and performance art works, architectural models and drawings, design objects, and films. MoMA also owns approximately two million film stills. The Museum’s Library and Archives contain the leading concentration of research material on modern art in the world, and each of the curatorial departments maintains a study center available to students, scholars, and researchers. MoMA’s Library holds over 320,000 items, including books, artists’ books, periodicals, and extensive individual files on more than 90,000 artists. The Museum Archives contains primary source material related to the history of MoMA and modern and contemporary art.