artSümer is happy to announce its participation in Senkron, which focuses on video art in Turkey with simultaneous events taking place between 15-30 April. For the second edition of Senkron, .artSümer is presenting Volkan Aslan's first solo exhibition at the gallery titled There Was Enough Room Yet No Water.
Consisting of seven videos, There Was Enough Room Yet No Water focuses on the metaphor of fire and describes the effects of violent forms that have permeated the daily life of subjects. In each of the looping videos in the exhibition, we witness the fine burning of broken porcelain figurines that we are familiar with from the artist's previous works. The fire burning on the figurines; points to an ongoing insidious sense of inertia rather than an element that destroys, disintegrates and destroys.
Volkan Aslan (1982, Ankara) received his BFA from Mersin University in Painting Department in 2005. Recent solo exhibitions include Stay Safe, SALT Galata, Istanbul (2021); We Forget Because It Works, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris (2019); Shoot me! Don't turn me over!, Pi Artworks, Istanbul (2018); A Day Not Yet Lived, Pi Artworks, London (2014) and Don't Forget to Remember, ARTER, Istanbul (2013). Selected group exhibitions include What Water Knows, Pilot, Istanbul (2022); Here, There, Somewhere, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris (2021); A Question of Taste, Pera Museum, Istanbul (2021); The Sequential, SALT Galata, Istanbul (2021); What Time Is It?, ARTER, Istanbul (2019); Under the Radar: 5533 at ISCP, International Studio & Curatorial Program, Williamsburg, New York (2018); Home Is Where The He{Art} Is?, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris (2018); 15th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul (2017); Harbor, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul (2017) and Istanbul: Passion, Joy, Fury, MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome (2015).
