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Temporary Sameness
From the series ‘Temporary Sameness’: Mirror II, 2019
Archival Pigment Print
100 x 150 cm
Ed. 5 + 2 A.P.
Courtesy of the artist and Zilberman Gallery.

Zeynep Kayan »

Temporary Sameness

Exhibition: 16 Feb – 4 May 2019

Zilberman Gallery

Istiklal Cad. N163 K:3 D:10 Beyoglu
Istanbul

+90-2122511214


www.zilbermangallery.com

Tue-Fri 11-19:30, Sat 12-19

Temporary Sameness
Zeynep Kayan, "From the series ‘Temporary Sameness’: Branch"
Video, 00’30’’
Courtesy of the artist and Zilberman Gallery.

Zeynep Kayan
"Temporary Sameness"


Exhibition: 16 February – 4 May, 2019

Zeynep Kayan’s artistic practice focuses on exploring the variations of a repetitious structural setup through photography, video and sound pieces in relation to portraiture and performance. In her previous work, she reveals the change and the desire for movement embedded in the production process as she disturbs the surfaces of images. Her works that are produced for "Temporary Sameness" carries the movement from the surface of the image to the "within" by trying to treat the body as yet another material.

The video works and the screenshot photographs from them complete each other and aim to exhaust the possibilities of material and movement. Kayan takes the camera as a mirror and watches her own body during her experiments with movement; in the recorded processes of temporary experimentation, spontaneous elements intertwine with setup choreographies. While the audience encounters with Kayan’s simultaneous decisions, the screenshots represent the selected moments from these processes and the image transforms into a material that is repeated, deconstructed and divided.

Kayan, in interaction with objects like pipes, mirrors, scissors, heat insulators in her almost performative videos, sometimes mimics these objects, tries to fit into the voids they create and at other times hides behind them. The body, which defines itself through the surrounding objects and is the source of movement doesn’t represent a portrait of Kayan but is rather an indifferent, neutral figure without an identity. During movement experiments in empty spaces, the posture cannot help but blend in with the materials used, while the objects lose their functions and turn into mere matter. The videos, in which it is not clear where the body is positioned, play with the viewer’s sense of space: Is the body stuck in a corner, is it upside down, is it laying or is it standing up?

Temporary Sameness
From the series ‘Temporary Sameness’: Insulator I, 2019
Archival Pigment Print
10 pieces, 80 x 64,5 cm (each)
Ed. 5 + 2 A.P.
Photo credit: Kayhan Kaygusuz
Courtesy of the artist and Zilberman Gallery.

Zeynep Kayan (1986, Ankara) graduated from Communication and Design Department of Bilkent University and got her MA degree in Fine Arts Department of MaHKU in Utrecht, Netherlands. She was the co-founder of independent art space “Torun” in Ankara. Solo shows: Constructed (Zilberman Gallery, Istanbul, 2016) and Uncomplete (Zilberman Gallery, Istanbul, 2013). Selected group shows and collaborations: CONCEALED (Kasa Galeri, Istanbul, 2018) Until Finding the Source of the Water (with Özgür Atlagan, Salt Galata, 2018); The Library (tete, Berlin, 2017); NevGeneration: Amusement Park (Galeri Nev, 2015); Pull the Rope We’re Downstairs (with Burcu Bilgiç, Zilberman Projects—Istanbul, 2015; Torun, Ankara, 2014), Untitled Original lecture performance (Field Meeting,2015, ACAW, New York, 2015); Joyful Wisdom (Rezan Has Museum, 2013); Offside Effect, 1st Tbilisi Triennial (Center of Contemporary Art, Tbilisi, 2012); Uncanny Encounters (Istanbul Modern, 2011). She won the second prize for her "Untitled" dummy book at Kassel Dummy Book Awards in 2017. The book got published by Akinabooks and launched at Unseen Amsterdam 2018. Kayan lives and works in Ankara/İstanbul.

Temporary Sameness
From the series ‘Temporary Sameness’: Pipe I, 2019
Archival Pigment Print
310 x 100 cm
Ed. 5 + 2 A.P.
Courtesy of the artist and Zilberman Gallery.
Temporary Sameness
Temporary Sameness, Zilberman Gallery–Istanbul, 2019
Photo credit: Kayhan Kaygusuz
Courtesy of the artist and Zilberman Gallery.
Temporary Sameness
Zeynep Kayan, "From the series ‘Temporary Sameness’: Mirror III"
Video, 00’30’’
Courtesy of the artist and Zilberman Gallery.