Solo ESRA KİZİR GÖKÇEN from
İstanbul, “METAMORPH-TRICK”
31.VIII –
9.IX 2014 Amsterdam
Arps&Co window gallery
Arubastraat 1
An artist from Istanbul; ESRA
KİZİR GÖKÇEN. Inspired by the multy layered geographic and historical
accumulation of Anatolia, which she was born and living. Esra, is using the
sighns and connotations coming from the essence of her homeland’s richness of
diversity and multy layered existance. The artist is focusing today’s cultural
and social formation, holding the same multy layered spirit, the dynamism and
rebound to future with an increasing energy.
Esra Kizir Gökçen
“METAMORPH-TRICK” solo exhibition is between 31 August – 9 September 2014 in
Amsterdam, Artps&Co Window Gallery...
Everything differs from the moment
of realization among the layers of life. Whatever has been left from the past
isn’t as it was now. Conditions of time
and space morphs everything. The illusions created by these movements
manupulates the perceptions. And these tricks are what Esra Kizir Gökçen is
trying to explain in “metamorph-trick” as herself being tricked by her own
perception.
Layers of time in movement is
continously morphing both past and the future and preempting our perceptions,
foresights, feelings. Marks of the past and the thoughts about them, foresights
of future and dreams... They all form different layers, all are the tricks,
telescoped, folded, morphed beyond generally accepted memories’ colors and
lines: While considering is done, it’s just starting, changes the memorizations
from top to bottom. Creating new knowledge and perceptions and what’s coming
next is invalidating the previous. Happenings and objects are falling into
pieces and when coming together again, merging differently in disparate
combinations. Metamorphed objects come into view, sometimes in an empty space,
sometimes on a morphed ground, sometimes in a fantasy space and time zone. What
a game this is, endlessly continuing while differing all the rules!
The earth might be under water
like Atlantis, or a piece of land flying in the sky up to the emptiness of
space in this fantasy. Even the figures are similar to earthly beings, mostly they
are like creatures splitted and merged again inaccurately. Also the spatial
elements are splitted and combined to create another world. The artist’s
connotations are emphasising the metamorphosis and impossibility of
reoccuration on the splited personalities and livings as they were before. As
they remind us the proposition; “you cannot step twice into
the same stream”. Pointing that all the
moments are new and the human perception is so confused about this tricks of
time circle. Taking attention to the world we live in and our responsibility to
the nature through the clouds, trees, roots and all the likely details symbolizing
nature, for this very reason. The cloud and the tree is telling us about the
circle of water ergo life and the continuity in past to the future. We can see
the influence of Turkish classical painting, calligraphy and miniature in the
curved lines and symbols in Esra’s drawings. Her technics in her compositions
and concepts are containing the choices that emphasise each other. Metamorphic
compositions are coming to front as tricks speculating these narrated past and
futuristic approach together in the present moment.
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