A co-exhibition by Ülgen Semerci and Burcu Yağcıoğlu, "Siste" (In the Fog), opened its doors to art-lovers on June 8 and will run until Aug. 1 at the American Hospital Operation Room Art Gallery. This is the second co-exhibition by the artists, whose first, "Sel Bastı" (Flooded), was in Atelier in Arnavutköy. In their second co-exhibition, the artists use the metaphoric and literary meanings of fog to create their pieces. The aesthetic compositions capture different aspects of this natural phenomenon, ranging from fog emerging from melting icebergs in the ocean to fog surrounding boars in a forest. Yağcıoğlu and Semerci materialize the irreversible loss of earth due to pollution caused by humans and their stand against interpretation, classification and segregation through a fog layer covering the floor of the exhibition room. "Siste" creates an aesthetic circulation system that invites visitors to think about images produced in the visual subconscious, borders getting blurry and dismantled, and hope and gloom upon which the place is built.
Yağcıoğlu was born in Istanbul in 1981, and currently lives and works in-between London and Istanbul. In her work, she uses different materials and techniques, such as patterns, videos, collages and paintings. She creates images through objects like GIF animations, cookbooks and encyclopedias, while producing works of art that question differentiation and interaction between species, nature and fiction. The focus of Yağcıoğlu's work is information circulation, the perception of nature and given cultural hierarchies. Semerci was born in Istanbul, in 1981. She completed her undergraduate studies in painting at Concordia University in Montreal. Then she moved to the U.S. to take graduate painting courses at the New York Studio School. In 2010, Semerci moved back to Istanbul where she currently works and live, and she attended two guest artist programs in Iceland (Nes Artist Residency) and in Finland (Arteles) in 2012. She focuses on landscape perception and representation. While working mostly with oil paint, she has started adding photography into her work as well.
When: Until Saturday
Where: American Hospital Operation Room Art Gallery
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