Violation Exercises: Erinç Seymen

Erinç Seymen’s 2nd solo exhibition “Violation Exercises” will be open in Galerist from 17th May to 25th June.

 The exhibition is an installation of paintings and sound spreading in the whole gallery space which will be coloured and reconstructed by the artist. “Violation Exercises” includes paintings based on deconstructed variations of popular, anonymous and cliche images. The artist, re-objectifies his recent themes with materials borrowed from collective memory and tries to widen his scale from singular to plural: it’s being discussed how the “self” relates him/herself to “we”, Public space and power mechanisms and how the tension caused by those relationships effect a radical existence and political attitude.

 Seymen’s attempt to enrich his visual grammar with non-figurative formules (such as text, urban images, objects etc. ) can also be found in music piece he composed fort he exhibition: the electro-acoustic composition contains sounds recorded inside and outside of the artist’s home and operates as subconsciousness of the exhibition space.

 The 19 min. Long music composition which the artist created will be printed on an audio CD format and distributed to the visitors. There’s also a book which includes a text by Erden Kosova and some of the pieces done till today by the artist.

 Erinç Seymen was born in 1980 in Istanbul. He graduated from Istanbul High School in 1999 and still continuous his education at the Mimar Sinan University Fine Art’s Faculty / Art Department. “Plajın Altında”, “Kaldırım Taşları” and “ Seni Öldüreceğim İçin Çok Üzgünüm” in Proje4L and “Along the Gates of Urban” in Berlin and Istanbul are some of the group exhibitions he had been in.