Mixer will host the group exhibition “Observed Truths” from Friday 20 January through Wednesday 1 March. Mutlu Aksu, Eren Bayrak, Irmak Canevi, Özcan Saraç, Ezgi Tok are the artists on display.
From the organizer:
Our systems of perception is programmed to render what is unperceivable to the perceivable. Considering that the concepts concerning measures and units are made up of self-referential realities, humans position themselves in between a thin line separating the relativity and the necessity of the concept of reality.
Through imagining the infinity we came to live the end, because we’re able to imagine the infinity we canonize the moment. Materializing what is abstract makes them measurable, perceivable. This is our way of perceiving and altering the truth. What is excellent, is not perfect, as the concept of perfection is a fiction, faultlessness does not come from the perfect measurements but comes from what is abstract.
Exhibition venue is divided into five equal parts, for every single artist. In this sense, consisting from mini solos, the exhibition aims to trace whatever belongs to now as well as providing a self-evaluation of the artists’ own originality.
Mutlu Aksu uses materials from the nature itself which does not refer to any kind of measurement unit. The artist, focusing on the variables such as; the frontiers of the changing natural environment, its forms and its impact on humans, questions the concepts forming the nature itself and its representations.
Eren Bayrak questions the ways of visual perception that developed for mass production in his works. For manipulating and re-conceptualizing images he mostly gathered from the visual media by playing with their graphic values and compositions, the artist rebuilds these images which have been separated from their original positions using different mediums and creates new meanings. In this sense, he questions our own visual realities shaped by mass media’s holographic reflections.
Irmak Canevi’s sculpture work, welcomes us as a structure, purged from its architectural functions, its distant standing to the walls defining the space while holding together opposite operations that fictionalized on the work’s surfaces. On the back side of the work he hides a strong confrontation while on the front, the casualness of the structure is reflected through balance games fictionalized by the iron bars piercing the wall. The balance of contrast factors continues on the wall with his drawings, creating a holistic approach like as acrobatics forms.
Özcan Saraç, while doing research on rendering what is unperceivable to the perceivable with his interactive voice installation, he creates an experience interpreting miscellaneous human ability of perception and questions the human conscious over these different systems of perception. Changing the perception form of a prime number which so big and long that it is unperceivable, he turns it into a sound, reforming it into something that we can understand and experience. With doing that, he questions human forms of understanding and imagination. While defining the structure of the factors which have become a part of our own reality or not, he also probes “human” system.
Ezgi Tok, with her work specifically produced for the exhibition and the venue, records the ant’s completion of the distance along a wall of certain longitude. The artist accepts every single step of the ant as a value and re-defines the wall by using the emerging units as a measurement criteria.
The artist is using the ant as a ruler to the reality emerging from the cm-value form, compares the standard measurement used to describe physical features and the irregular system which is beyond measurement and specific to the moment, and mediates to the mutual evaluation of these two reality factors. She retakes the relation between the measurer and the measurement tool (measurement system).
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For more information, check out the official exhibition page.
Tuesday – Saturday: 11:00 – 19:00
Sunday: 12:00 – 18:00
Image sourced via Mixer.
Tomtom Mh., Boğazkesen Caddesi No:45 – Tophane
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