Alt Art Space will host the multi-artist exhibition “Not Seeing Anything” from Thursday 12 January through Sunday 26 February.
From the organizer:
Alt Art Spaces presents Not Seeing Anything, a group show of emerging artists with Özgür Atlagan, Luna Ece Bal, Berk Çakmakçı, Alexandra Howland, Burak Kabadayı and Serra Tansel. Not Seeing Anything investigates the personal, cultural and political impulse to cover-up or conceal, as well as the position of the witness. The exhibition space will function as a shared studio-workspace, part-time residency, for several of the artists during the four weeks leading up to the exhibition. Not Seeing Anything will be accompanied by a zine.
Considering today’s over-saturated, over-stimulating urban and virtual environments, reading the current situation requires new eyes. “Not seeing anything intelligible is the new normal.” This statement is true in and out of the digital world, and inspires new responses. In Özgür Atlagan’s works, a variety of objects or people are shrouded by a blanket or paper which gestures more towards the drive behind this act of covering up than the hidden object. Likewise, Burak Kabadayı’s practice proposes an alternative, fastidiously process-based order that approaches repetition as a path for distortion and concealment. This paradigm allows the artist to reveal unexpected patterns of tension amongst organic elements and the built environment in the city. In a similar vein, Alexandra R Howland’s series AEGEA, 2016, looks to bring attention to the current refugee crisis throughout the Middle East and Europe with macro-images of the raft boats used by those attempting to cross from Turkey to Greece–an attempt at making visible our world’s most forgotten through challenging visual and ethical standards.
In Luna Ece Bal and Berk Çakmakçı’s practices, engagement with landscape function as a method for subverting a human-centric view of the world. While Çakmakçı probes the equivalence between visibility and vulnerability with the seduction of advertising and modern frustrations, Bal’s occultistic meditation in Salt Lake Reunion, 2016, is performed to a circular assembly of salt-stained glass shards. On the other hand, Serra Tansel is concerned with avoiding dominant narratives as one single reality. Her work seeks to create openings for new ways of seeing/unseeing and hence communicating. Tansel’s reflections on ongoing merging of cultures are witnesses to possible futures.
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For more information, check out the official exhibition page.
Tuesday – Sunday: 13:00 – 21:00
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+90 541 468 02 14 / +90 505 705 4045
Featured image sourced via press release.
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