KargART will host the screenpoem / exhibition “Creased or Cramped” on Sunday 3 and Monday 4 June. The event will be held in English.
From the Organizer:
Directed by Jade Mulvaney and Gamze Saymaz, written and performed by Gamze, creased; or a screenpoem, alongside Gamze’s experiment in video art titled pastilles, past stills. Çağla Bölek’s abstract paintings accompanied by her surreal poetry. The interdisciplinary group exhibition “creased or cramped: and experimentation in interplanary poetry” offers an experience of poetry and the poetic on different planes: The Screen, the Paper, and the Canvas.
The creative voices of the artists fed by similar textures and problematics bring them together and find new ways to speak and through different mediums. The works, though resembling existential poetry and abstract art, do not fit into a single movement as they build their own subjective language with ease. While gently inviting us to face the dark sides of our Psyches, they bring a novel dimension to interdisciplinary post-modern art by integrating performance poetry, video art, short film, and abstract visual art.
Focused on multiple sensations at once, the screenpoem which is set in different rooms of a single house is a performance-based experience in English. Dealing with timeless existential troubles like time and sleep while also sleeplessly tackling the origin of ghosts, it revolves around a girl who wakes up to find two eye holes cut into the bed sheet she was sleeping on and starts to experience strange happenings which are slowly revealed to be her playing pretend to train her fears and clothed e/motions relentlessly trapped and freed over and under again. It is a study of premature grief, while the video art project is a discourse on the concept of vulnerability.
Ranging between oil colour, acrylic, and materials from nature, mixed media is dominant in the paintings. They attempt to create the colour metaphors of the poems on subjects such as blurry feelings not yet digested fully, the moments of irrational burst of cosmic emotional intensities, universal oneness come together with surreal poems. With experimentations trying to hear the formless calls of the subconscious and the collective unconscious, they try to cramp the creative fountain and the transcendental nature of creation into the canvases and words. They aim to expand the poetic, and layer the experience of poetry.
The creative voices of the artists fed by similar textures and problematics bring them together and echo through different planes.
About The Artists
Gamze Saymaz, born in 1994, is an Istanbul based poet. She studied English Language and Literature and Psychology at Yeditepe University where she worked on various projects employing psychoanalysis and existentialism in literature. She is mainly interested in the interdisciplinary capturing of the vulnerability of the human experience.
Jade Mulvaney is a South African film director currently based in Istanbul. Jade majored in Directing at AFDA, The South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance. She has since lived in Barcelona, Berlin and now Istanbul gaining cultural perspective and working as an independent filmmaker. Since graduating she has made short films, music videos, art films, experimental’s and documentaries. Jade is also a self-taught videographer and photographer and has often picked up the camera to further her storytelling capabilities.
Çağla Bölek is a student of English Language and Literature and Art Management at Yeditepe University. She is a young artist who produces creative work in plastic arts, poetry, photography and art writing. She builds up her poems and paintings on magical realism and abstractionism. Studying humane values and uncanny aesthetics that are made to tend to be overlooked, she defends our authentic selves and unique expression.
The event will be held in English.
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For more information about the event, please be sure to keep up to date with the official event page. To learn more about the “Creased or Cramped” project, check out Yabangee’s interview with Gamze Saymaz.
Photos courtesy of the organizer and the author Çağla Bölek.
