Tabiatım bu! / It’s in my nature!
Kasa Gallery is pleased to announce its fall exhibition, It’s
in My Nature, featuring Yasemin Özcan Kaya, Dilek Winchester and Judith
Zdesar between 15.09.2010 – 30.10.2010. The three artists explore three
different approaches to the dynamics of the human psyche, its mysteries and volatility.
The works in the exhibition offer an inside look not only to emotional states
contrived or exposed by the pre-defined spaces of language and psychology, but
also to those emerging from the compulsory physical conditions imposed by
authority.
Yasemin Özcan Kaya’s video Run
(2010) travels from the multilayered boundaries of psychology to the physical
boundaries of the athletics track. Empty stadium stands accompany this
metaphorical representation: Sometimes sprints, sometimes hurdles and more often
a marathon or Süreyya? Ayhan? Nevin? Answer?...*
Judith Zdesar’s short film Images
from a diary of someone waiting / Bilder
aus dem Tagebuch eines Wartenden” (2007) focuses on the soldiers keeping
watch at the Austria-Hungary
border. In this border surveillance space where they are serving their
compulsory military service, the soldiers are in a state of meaningless and
endless waiting. Amidst a desolate geography buried under snow, they record
this tedious and absurd mode of waiting, their daily conversations and the
games they play to pass the time. In Michael Palm’s words, “… a war movie without a war. The only thing
that remains is concentrating on one’s own emotional situation.”
Dilek Winchester’s two-part work, The
geometry of life: 72 emotions (2010) has been realized in
collaboration with psychodramatist Arzu Soysal and actor Jockel Malcow. The
first part consists of a list of emotions compiled in collaboration with
Soysal. This list, inspired by Spinoza’s Ethica,
strives to verbalize the diversity of human emotion. The reflection of these 72
emotions in facial expressions constitutes the second part of the work. This
work presents a fragment of the impossible and boundless quest to define, enumerate,
document emotions and the expressions thereof.
Opening: 15 September,
Wednesday, 18:30
*Süreyya Ayhan and Nevin Yanıt
are professional athletes from Turkey
with considerable international achievement. Nevin Yanıt’s surname means
‘answer’ in Turkish.
