9 February–9 March 2013
Cda-Projects
Istiklal Cad. Misir Apt. No:163 K.2 D.5
Beyoglu, Istanbul, Turkey
Cda-Projects is pleased to announce Zeynep Kayan’s first solo show, Uncomplete.
Using the image itself as material, Zeynep Kayan looks for new possibilities in vision and perception by using the repetitive structural setup of variations that are created by fiddling with form. Her empirical artistic production, which continuously alternates between a performative state of being and not being, re-examines the environment and the individual from different perspectives.
In Uncomplete, the image is recreated in different instances and different layers through photography and video. In this endless process, where image accumulates by folding onto itself, Kayan constructs a unique visual language in which original and copy mesh inextricably. In this selection, in which time is sometimes juxtaposed and at other times superposed, light and sound join in through the flowing image.
In his commentary on Zeynep Kayan’s work quoted from the exhibition catalogue, Ozan Utku Akgün suggests:
“It appears to me that the tendencies towards break-up, decentralisation and occlusion in these works stems from […] the artist’s belief that the free state of the relationship in the current space is insufficient, her keeping of the things that are in the space that she intends to restructure, in a rift between existing and not existing. She tries them, tests them in other surfaces, analyses the potentiality of the pieces and starts to design a structure using the freeness that she was exposed to. This structure refuses to give in to the forces of matter, doesn’t want to be confined within the limits of self-portrait or to be contented with the data of the body and of perception; instead of keeping the encounter at the first instant of confluence, transformation and exposure, it tries to see again and again in the rift where photography and video test each other, it tries to bring a thickness to the non-existing relationship. The abundance of the style of seeing in the works that concentrate on the unseen goes in and out of the rifts to find an unparalleled experience, tests the size of the image, intends to try the limitless possibilities of the image. For Kayan, this limitless possibility is not a crisis but an opportunity; the process of a venture that is shared with the audience, that takes its strength from its uncompletedness, a process to be restarted every time, left open to the touch.”
Zeynep Kayan (b. 1986, Ankara) received her undergraduate degree from Bilkent University, Department of Communication and Design, in 2008 and her graduate degree in Fine Arts from MaHKU in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Her work has been exhibited internationally. She lives and works in Ankara, home to the independent art space Torun, which she co-founded.
Gallery Information
CDA-Projects was founded in 2009 and is located in Mısır Apartment, which is centrally located on İstiklal Street, the cultural center of Istanbul. CDA-Projects is committed to support emerging artists from Turkey. The gallery also represents internationally acclaimed Turkish and international artists with outstanding works.
