merve çanakçı

merve çanakçı

artSümer hosts solo shows of Merve Çanakçı and Gökçe Er concurrently between 2 December 2010 - 15 January 2011.

While one room hosts now resident in Berlin Merve Çanakçı’s larger than life fabrics, the rest of the exhibition space is covered with Gökçe Er’s challenging collage canvases and sketches.

These two solo exhibitions meet where the unseen is; bringing together a plastic world where mundane objects that else wise would not catch our attention as ‘art’ are brought into our lives for everyone to see.

Merve Çanakçı creates her works using mixed media on fabric but she also uses photography as in this exhibition. Her starting point is the state of the human mind whilst trying to overcome obstacles; coping with fears and struggling with decision-making. The title of the show : "Broken; not to be scattered but to be extended" touches the state of breaking up of emotions to unleash bigger and deeper meanings.