Bozlu Art Project Nişantaşı will host the group exhibition “SOSYOMANYA”, curated by Özlem İnay Erten, from Thursday 15 June through Saturday 26 August.
From the organizer:
Bozlu Art Project hosts the exhibition “SOSYOMANYA” between June 15 – August 26. The exhibition, curated by Özlem İnay Erten focuses on the effect of the use of “SOCIAL MEDIA”, becoming nearly to a pathological level today to the reflections on inner world of individuals and social relations. The exhibition hosting the works of Ali Alışır, İlgen Arzık, Beyza Boynudelik, Özgür Demirci, Utku Dervent, Evren Erol, Çağatay Odabaş, Meliha Sözeri, Berkay Tuncay, Semih Zeki offers a point of view on what is experienced in social media through the eyes of artists.
While meeting our most basic needs, such as communicating, learning, declaring our ideas, satisfying our curiosity, being aware through SOCIAL MEDIA, every moment that we steal from the life and every little image that we share in order to capture the most beautiful image and get the most likes become a portrait of our lives when viewed in its entirety; what we love, what we hate, how we want to look and how we see…
While the array of images revealing every “moment” of our lives and sometimes even the most intimate “memories” compel our lives just as an object to look at, they also reveal how we consume the time in our new living spaces. We entertain, go on a vacation, share our political views, our hassle-free relations, flawless faces; prove how informed, how brave, how sensitive we are; we collect “likes” via our passed away; we share how much we are loved by “sharing” our “likes” and “become social” through social media. Through our phones, almost integrated with our hands, we try to share our every moment/memory, we do not look at the faces of our addressees, not see the scenery in front of us while counting our likes; and we become more narcissist, more lonely and alienated from ourselves…
The exhibition titled “SOSYOMANYA”, hosting the works of Ali Alışır, İlgen Arzık, Beyza Boynudelik, Özgür Demirci, Utku Dervent, Evren Erol, Çağatay Odabaş, Meliha Sözeri, Berkay Tuncay, Semih Zeki, underlines the following questions that social media wants us to answer:
What are you doing?, What do you think?, What’s going on? …
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For more information, visit the official exhibition page.
Tuesday – Saturday: 10:00 – 19:00
+90 212 232 72 32
contact@bozluartproject.com
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