Insituwo

 

2019, Bruxelles

Ballonrouge Bruxelles, Galerist Istanbul
...track-suits, eggplants, green peppers, plastic chairs and slippers, prayer beads, unicorn balloons, and even Shéhérazade makes an appearance. All of the objects float, disembodied and weighted with signification. In fact, since 2002, starting with her ‘Bauhaus Series,’ Akdeniz has been investigating the belief systems and ontologies of and around objects as artifacts...

Akdeniz’s new works are about the unnatural and ironic, the non-place, floating feeling of being an immigrant...

exhibition text by Nicole O’rouke for the exhibition “insituwo” 2019

'insituwo', exhibition view, 2019, Ballonrouge, Bruxelles
'once an immigrant always an immigrant', 2019, oil on linen, 130x140 cm
'where is Scheherazade?', 2019, oil on linen, 180x160 cm
'once an immigrant always an immigrant2', 2019, oil on linen, 180x160 cm

 

2019, Bruxelles

Ballonrouge Bruxelles, Galerist Istanbul
...track-suits, eggplants, green peppers, plastic chairs and slippers, prayer beads, unicorn balloons, and even Shéhérazade makes an appearance. All of the objects float, disembodied and weighted with signification. In fact, since 2002, starting with her ‘Bauhaus Series,’ Akdeniz has been investigating the belief systems and ontologies of and around objects as artifacts...

Akdeniz’s new works are about the unnatural and ironic, the non-place, floating feeling of being an immigrant...

exhibition text by Nicole O’rouke for the exhibition “insituwo” 2019