ni4ni: Serkan Özkaya

Galerist is pleased to present Serkan Özkaya’s fifth solo exhibition at the gallery showcasing an interventionist installation titled ‘ni4ni’ from September 8th to October 22nd, 2022. Premiered at Postmasters Gallery in New York in March 2022, the installation positions the spectator as the subject on view. The exhibition is realized in partnership with 21c Museum.

What if we told you that you don't inhabit one single viewpoint, one body, one pair of eyes or one fleeting moment in time? What if you could escape the echo-chamber of your senses and infinitely multiply your perception, your experience, your very existence?

New visions and meanings will unveil themselves as your habitual frame of reference comes unmoored and shifts towards another. A parallax will take place in front of your eyes - and in the gray matter behind them...

As Lacan poignantly put it: "That which is light looks at me, and by means of that light in the depths of my eye, something is painted; something that is an impression, the shimmering of a surface that is not, in advance, situated for me in its distance. This is something with all its ambiguity and variability, which is in no way mastered by me. It is rather it that grasps me, solicits me at every moment, and makes the landscape something other than a landscape, something other than what I have called a picture."

Now, we solicit you to make a leap of faith and take part in an out-of-body experience, to become one with the landscape and the picture and gaze upon the all-seeing eye; we invite you to set the show in motion with your presence and bend your reality to new curvatures of seeing.

Step into Galerist and shift your perspective once and for all. The walls, ceiling and floors are streaked with illegible anamorphic patterns that the mirrored surface of a massive sphere in the corner reflects and reinterprets. How will the observer transform the observed and how, in turn, will the observer be transformed?

 

 

 

 

 

Special thanks to

Gillian Steinhardt, Laura Lee Brown, Melkan Gürsel, Steve Wilson, Taha Tatlıcı, Murat Tabanlıoğlu, Doris Benhalegua, Wandoko Mulyo, Habib Bolat, Halil Altındere, Lal Bahçecioğlu, Barış Özçetin, Paul Debevec, Müge Çubukcu, Ecem Ümitli, İrem Divriş, Berfu Adalı, Gökhan Kelkit, Hülya Kızılırmak, Zeynep Bora, RA, Erdoğan Morgül, Tayfun Akgün, Dmitry Arslan, Magda Sawon, Tamas Banovich, Janet Cardiff, Nathaniel Garcia, Marc Mewshaw, Atıf Akın, David Resnicow, Erdağ Aksel, David Procuniar, Carl Skelton, Filiz Klassen, Erik Mahieu, Celia Ember, Julian Jason Haladyn, Sasha Luo, Can Altay, Aslı Altay, Seza Paker, Ali Akay, November Paynter, Burcu Tokatlı, Murat Odabaşı, Donald Shambroom, Güven Güzeldere and Marlon Özkaya