Prone: Merve Morkoç

Between April 21 – May 21 2011, Galerist Galatasaray will be hosting young artist Merve Morkoç’s exhibition “Prone / Yüzükoyun.”

With the canvas and mural paintings which are related to the exhibition space, in “Prone / Yüzükoyun” Merve Morkoç is dragging the audience into a dream.

In “Prone / Yüzükoyun,” the starting point of the artist is her dreams and nightmares. She believes that this exhibition has given her the chance to intervene her dreams for the first time, and she also aims for the audience to intervene and relate to her dreams. Her purpose is to forcefully drag the visitors into a dream, in a place they have voluntarily entered.

The fact that the dreams can never be fully remembered and what remains in the memory are the pieces of these dreams, is the main idea of Merve Morkoç’s exhibiton “Prone / Yüzükoyun.” The artist wants the visitors to experience twenty minute long “REM (Rapid Eye Movement)”s in each room, and the works in each room are divided into pieces that make up a whole. This both supports the ideas of the fragmentation of dreams; and the paintings being designed by the artist as a part of the space, and being unable to entirely exist in a place outside the exhibition space. From the first to the last, each painting is part of the same story and a sequel to one another.

Besides the spray paints that flood out of the canvas’, in the exhibition Merve Morkaç has composed some of the wooden Works with pop-up images.

Merve Morkoç

Born in İstanbul in 1986, Merve Morkoç is studying Graphic Designin Mimar Sinan University. She has practiced street art and besides many collective exhibitions, in 2010 she had her first solo show “1335” as part of a triple exhibition project in The Hall. Then in fall 2010, she had her solo show “Netame Hanım ve Kumpanyası” in Milk Gallery. The artist works in Istanbul.