
SCALE
22.10 – 28.11.2020
Group Exhibition
Curated by EZGİ BAKÇAY
CAN AYTEKİN |SİNEM DİŞLİ | ALPER DERİNBOĞAZ | EGE KANAR | YELTA KÖM | METEHAN ÖZCAN | YAĞIZ ÖZGEN | PEIFER & KREUTZER | ÖMER PEKİN | YUSUF MURAT ŞEN | SELİM SÜME | SERKAN TAYCAN
Inclusive integrities, the rhythms of everyday life, economic, racial, sexual hierarchies, distances, proximities, majors, and minors exist according to a fictional reference note. In some periods of history, the fictionality of scales is experienced in a radical and collective way. These are mostly the periods when the arrogance of the species was broken, and things did not go well. Just like the period we are in. Human species has long felt that the world is getting smaller, but now it experiences a loss of scale in which there is no consistent connection between small and large. The scale primarily serves to know and understand, thus, to distinguish, count, accumulate and possess. It provides a form to the formlessness and a beginning and an end to the limitlessness of the world. It makes it possible to set, select and place borders. It divides time and space according to a certain order and sets it to rhythm. Since politics is a matter of imposing order on the world, of course scaling is primarily the prerogative of the political power. Political sovereignty that sets the hours or designs the distance between the centre and the periphery puts the course of life, which is truly formless and directionless, to a certain scale. On the other hand, no matter how many artists, poets, musicians there are, who fails to seize the scale, how many discordant, the lamer rhythms, the more distorted perspectives and the more inconsistent measures is present.
The exhibition at Versus Art Project, curated by Ezgi Bakçay, discusses the possibility of re-distancing with the absolute order of social structures, bodies and spaces, inclusions, and exclusions. Considering this special period, we are going through, it focuses on the distortions in the scaled relationship that the human species establishes with the world.
Horsehead Nebula (1089 Colours) #2 2020 Acrylic on canvas 198 x 165 cm
A Research Programme In The Ocean Of Anomalies: RSM: YNRGLR; 21102020 Pencil and acrylic on acid free paper mounted on MDF panel, 202 x 139 cm, (9 pieces; each: 49,5 x 69,5 cm)
Shell #00 The Northern Coast of Istanbul 2010 Archival pigment print 68 x 88 cm (3 pieces)
Distant Points of Interest 2018 - 2020 Cyanotype and brass frame D: 15 cm (10 pieces) Unique
Dekor 07 2019 Archival pigment print 120 x 100 cm 3 + 1 AP
There Is No Time 2020 Video, 02’ 29’’ Oyuncu : İrem Dilaver Videograf : Noyan Ayturan Müzik : Chad Crouch
Untitled 10 2019 Laquered steel 90 x 76 x 10 cm Unique
Distant Points of Interest 2018 - 2020 Cyanotype and brass frame D: 15 cm (10 pieces) Unique
How Long Does It Last 2016 Video installation 4 channels 16:9, 1920 x 1080, 25fps Sound, 13 min, loop
Untitled (ELKA) 2020 Metal 202 x 400 x 60 cm
Cosmograph-1 2020 Video Single channel
Sleepless 2020 Textile printing lightbox 37 x 63 x 5 cm
Soil 2020 Textile printing lightbox 33 x 45 x 5 cm
Orbit 2020 Textile printing lightbox 50 x 80 x 5 cm
Three Portraits 2020 Archival pigment print on aluminium 177 x 60 cm Unique
Transient 2020 Zeppelin Balloon, Sodium Lamp, Soundsystem D: 2,5 m
The Missing Page 2020 Installation Archival Photograph (Backlit Duratrans Print) 16,5 x 26,5 cm