Seçil Büyükkan – Deniz Aktaş “Inside or Outside”

Secil Buyukkan – Deniz Aktas

Inside or Outside

Deniz Aktaş and Seçil Büyükkan, who present their productions on the relationship between city and city life and the relationship between people and space, which started in the 20th century and continue today, with a solo exhibition titled “Inside or Outside”, create an awareness of this phenomenon about thought. The exhibition hosts approximately thirty works of the two artists in different techniques and practices that stand apart from each other but complement each other at the exact intersection in terms of content. Urban and urban life, space and human relations are within a certain social structure and are produced by this structure, this is clearly a dialectical process. While art was once produced as a cult object and received collectively, this structure has changed with Modernism, the object of art has now begun to convey the self-understanding of the modern bourgeois individual. Perhaps for this reason, the absence of figures in Aktaş’s urban scenes and the fact that Büyükkan’s figures are without “face” seem to reveal the reasons for the alienation experienced by the modern individual. The ethical role of the artist in a post-industrial political economy and post-modern process must be the most. What is observed in both artists is that they fulfill the function of making art visible and raising awareness about them. The rest is about how the audience draws from them about themselves and society.

The presence of colors in Aktaş’s works evokes an opinion opposed to the definition of “White Turk” as the symbol of the elitist- and sterile-position Turkish modernism has provided to the bureaucracy since its establishment; Although this has entered a process of change in the 2000s. Of course, it points to buildings symbolized by the power of money and enterprise rather than buildings that are now the construction of bureaucracy. Tobacco yolk, the association of urban migration since 1950 to address economic and political causes of migration from east to west in Turkey the possibility of creating intense.

Seçil Büyükkan, on the other hand, in her works, in which she questions the relation between space and human, draws a kind of vein map of the body and deals with the existence states of figures and their relations with space. Are the figures stuck in spaces really free in those spaces? Or do spaces make up the individual? In other words, the fact that individuals are determined and not determined by the space constitutes the main structure of Büyükkan’s work.