Damla Faro, İnci Furni, Erdal Duman, Merve Çanakçı, Onur Gülfidan, Gökçe Er
artSümer's opening exhibition in Karaköy Point Zero, continues with its second part.
Point Zero, simultaneous with the biennial, is a reference to the agenda that changes every two years: between exploration and conditioning, on the line between forgetting and remembering. It is about stories that lost their protagonists with neutralized centers and interrupted history with its people.
Damla Tokcan Faro seeks zero in dualities, situating women in an abstract web of time. The artist, who utilizes Art deco silhouettes that she found, makes the viewers think about the identities and whereabouts of old and young women. This search can take the viewer to another expression of the same idea, another duality: Merve Çanakçı's familiar black and white Hello Kitty quilt has an image of an idealized cat, a tabby cat. Although both are not real, could a singularly represented cat be more precious, more unique than a mass-produced cat? On the other hand, could an m60, a gun, mass-produced and distributed as widely as a quilt, be a beginning and an end at the same time? Erdal Duman's m60 is an answer to the end of histories in homogenized areas.
Inci Furni’s work Solaris is on the intermittent repetition of an image. Her work shares the same title as the film Solaris where themes such as the cosmos, the world, human consciousness, memory, life, death and responsibility are addressed. The artist penetrates into the cycle of duality and levels of meaning that are based on new beginnings -point zero- and proposes a look in reverse.
Onur Gülfidan, who paints figures who are in contradiction with each other and their surroundings, who exist in voids, seeks a point of zero by creating figures that are emancipated from context. This time, the artist has a political agenda that is zeroed and re-started, in the two canvases he positions on top of each other, the expectations of the chooser, the expectations of the chosen. Gökçe Er's two characters seem to have escaped a world in which they found what was promised to them. The artist says, "When everything comes to the point of zero, there is a situation of escaping that. The escaped is beautiful, isolated, a place just abandoned..."
A breath of air for those who are tired from the in-betweenness, existence and destruction, endless cycles, go-arounds, tides of back and forths. Point Zero part 2 meets viewers in artSümer's new gallery space in Karaköy on October 20th.
