Uncanny Distance: Erinç Seymen
Galerist would like to announce Erinç Seymen’s first solo exhibition. The artist has chosen canvas as his medium of expression and uses familiar perspective on a flat background, thus transforming subjectivity through several frames of layering. Painting can be considered the expressionist’s form of subjectivity, as well as pointing far beyond the notions of the artist, the medium captures its viewer in a state of contemplation, silent yet desiring a response.
Uncanny Distance constructs an intuitive relationship of signifier and signified. As the gallery transforms into a space touched by the artist’s installation, the influence of the artist’s experience forces the viewer to notice rather than be distanced from a feeling of self-possession. The formal built structure causes unexpected feelings of involvement, as the artist references the relativity of personal curiosity. Childhood, violence and sexuality can be perceived as the three themes dominating the canvas series and the exhibition presents them coherently taking into account their differentiating and converging points of view. Soldier, a portrait that expresses identity rather than individuality, presents a costume and pose to give hints about the context and narrative contained without the face being detailed. The artist forms up a second layer of meaning through the texture added onto the photographic images. As the texture increases on the canvas, the audience is put more under the pressure to perceive what is really being framed. The amorphic connection between childhood toys and sexuality, the remains of the diminished and marks of the non-present are all signs of a dense fragility that the artist draws from, being self-confident and self-possessed especially in the frames where he uses himself as the background.
The ritual taking place in the apartment of Erinç Seymen, is in a way combined with the music he composes. Following this relationship, sound is included in the exhibition as a complementary element.
Erinç Seymen, born in 1980, is still educating at the MimarSinanUniversity, Academy of Fine Arts Painting Department. The exhibition Uncanny Distance can be seen at Galerist between 18th December and 17th January.
