Hera Büyüktasciyan

Beschrijving

Tent. Istanbul, Galeri Mana, 15-05-2014, 28-06-2014. - Kunstenaarsboek van de Turkse kunstenaar Hera Büyüktasciyan (1984) waarin de de metaforen van land en zee worden onderzocht. - Taking the relationship between sea and land as a metaphor, the exhibition explores the potential "to see beyond the visible", understood in art historical and anthropological terms. The exhibition takes its title from the prophecy of the oracle of Delphi that Byzas of Megara followed in his quest to found the new city of Byzance. Building on the speculative movement of the prophecy that defines a piece of land by its position "across the blind" and a promise to be seen, Buyuktasciyan's drawings and installations explore the relationship between the visible and the invisible, evoking a movement on the axis of presence and absence. Beyond the static and retinal understanding of vision, they stretch out towards movement in space and time on one hand, and cognitive processes such as contemplation and remembrance on the other. In Buyuktasciyan's installations, architectural structures such as balconies and docks point to a transitional space between inside and outside, the past and the present time, the submarine realm and the surface of the land. Taking sea navigation and the relationship between land and sea as metaphors, the exhibition delves into traces beyond the visible surface of things, the sediments of passing time, and the topographic and historical depths of its location, Karakoy and Galata