A moment of blindness, deafness, is caused by the breaking of a wave as it passes through the iris, the eardrum. The thread of the wave carries melody and reflection up and down from peak to trough. Its rhythm is at the same time warp and woof, a texture pierced at every moment by the gaze, but never seen by the eye. Striking the membrane, it echoes, but is not heard. It is felt, but not touched. The sight of this paradox is the sound of syncopation…
Through the space of this exhibition, Emin Çizenel relates the experience of the intellectual and the psychological, and the problematic need for their reconciliation. The exhibition reconstructs and explores a memory: the “status report,” which forms an integral part of it, points, among other things, to space that is slipping from the rural to the urban; the role of society and personal experience in delimiting desire; the psychological and social consequences of transgressing the boundaries of accepted differences; transformative gender concepts; and slippery and conflicting cultural norms and taboos.
Interpreting the implications of the works here leads to a schizophrenic paradox: while the artistic “emphasis” takes on the form of the subject matter and finds its content, it simultaneously constructs another, desolate and lonely space. As a result, although the subject of the exhibition is derived from the story of an actual historical event, the original context is transformed, leaving only traces of the event and foregrounding an aesthetic of images and sounds.
The exhibition, by the artist Emin Çizenel, takes place at the Argo Gallery in southern Nicosia from 7pm on Wednesday January 28th to Saturday February 14th.
Learn more about the artist on his website: www.emincizenel.com
Argo Gallery’s website: www.argogallery.org
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