KIRILDIKÇA AÇILIR | BROKEN OPEN
17.09.2020 - 17.10.2020
Sonra bir kenara yükünü bırakır gibi kolajlar ortaya çıkmaya başladı - kenara itilen şey çoğunlukla düşüncenin tam merkezindedir - her biri arzuları, hazları, kaygıları ve hatta korkuları barındıran bir mekân önerisi. Yan yana geldiklerinde ne olduğu henüz bilinmeyen bir yapının krokisi. Yenilip yutulamayanın bariz bir ifadesi. Gerçek ile hayal edilenin arasındaki belirsizlik. Bu kolajlar, birbirine benzemeyen şeyler arasındaki unutulmuş yakınlıklar ve duygudaşlıklar kurmanın bağları.”
BROKEN OPEN
17.09.2020 - 17.10.2020
GALLERY NEV ANKARA
GEZEGEN ST. NO:5
Galeri Nev, which opened its exhibitions on Gezegen Sokak between 1993 and 2018
for twenty-five years, organized its old space as an artist residence after moving to
its new address and invited Eda Gecikmez as its first guest. Completing almost a
year at Gezegen, Gecikmez questions how this space filled with memories and
moments in the history of art in Turkey transformed her own works and in turn
how her works changed the very space. She opens the doors of her workshop to
visitors to watch more than thirty collages made up of episodes of her time at the
residence. Eda Gecikmez considers her collages, namely “the openings appearing as
they broke” as a manifesto about the next horizon of her art. The workshop will be
visited by appointment as of September 17.
“Nine months at Gezegen have turned into a dramatic experience of being
momentary and temporary. While moving to establish my own existence in the void
of a place laden with various memories of the past, it was very unpredictable to
enter the quarantine that would last for months with a move of time. I stopped.
Everything that was solid in silence and solitude started to crack, then broke,
opened as it broke. Human form, the first prison - must be destroyed. Disburden it,
override the borders. Get rid of all the topics. Destroy all the monuments, destroy all
the holy ones. Accept the pain and fragility. Voluntary transformation.
Then collages began to emerge, as if leaving the burden aside - what is pushed
aside is often at the very center of the thought - a space proposal, each containing
desires, pleasures, anxieties, and even fears. A sketch of a building that is not yet
known when they come side by side. An obvious expression of which is hard to
swallow. Uncertainty between reality and imagined. These collages are the bonds of
forgotten intimacy and empathy between dissimilar things.”
(Gezegen means 'planet' in Turkish.)