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Date: Saturday, 04 November 2022

Hour: 4pm-5pm

Place: Mixer

The curator of "A New Grammar of Images," Uras Kızıl, will give an exhibition tour at Mixer. You are invited to the event, which will take place on Saturday, November 19, from 4 to 5 pm.

*Event is free

The New Grammar of Images

Named after a 1980 interview by Wener Herzog, the exhibition “New Grammar of Images” is based on Herzog’s 2005 documentary Grizzly Man and stems from arguments of ambiguity, coincidentally, and non-representativeness of the idea of new materialism. The “New Grammar of Images” chooses the documentary of Grizzly Man as its starting point and interacts with it in an asymmetrical way. Unlike the harmony Timothy Treadwell, the protagonist of Grizzly Man, hopes to find in nature, the exhibition does not aim to present the visual imagination of nature and objects in absolute harmony. With reference to the fact that current images fall short in relaying reality due to being data- and human-based and to the assumption that it presents only an interpretation of reality rather than reality itself, the exhibition searches for “new” images that do not reduce nature to an external representation (inherent in its celebration) and is not anthropocentric but multiplies possibilities.

The idea of new materialism constitutes the second theoretical layer of the conceptual framework, and the exhibition, including the works of 10 artists, offers an inter-work reading in terms of the relationality between objects and various techniques, methods of display, materiality, and artists. While each work opens up for discussion what is discursive about the agency of the object within its framework, it also undertakes the interconnectedness of another work that is related to it. Ali Kazma’s video work titled Absence in 2011, Merve Ünsal’s photographs titled A Few Words to Drones, version two and her video Or is the Horizon Line Just Another Crack?, and Didem Erbaş’s installation Under the Gaze of Birds  opens the political agency of objects and inter-objectedness up for discussion Kıymet Daştan’s work titled Oblivion Stone #14, Gökçe Erhan’s installation  Colors that don’t fade, and Gülçin Aksoy’s work Solitaj focus on the truth of objects inherent in memory. Yüksel Dal’s series Phase space and Murat Morova’s photographs titled Untitled present an imagination of the external work beyond representation, through the randomness of images. Lastly, placed on the central wall of the exhibition, Chongha Peter Lee & Ozan Atalan’s collaborative work Antinomy overturns anthropocentric thought and looks for new ways of expression synthesizing speculative theory, popular culture and non-binary aesthetics.

Address: Mixer, Mumhane St. , No:46-50, Karaköy, Beyoglu, Istanbul

Phone: 0212 243 54 43

Web: www.mixerarts.com

E-mail: info@mixerarts.com