We were always spectators, we always scrambled for tickets to become spectators, but now there are more ‘things’ to see and tickets are never sold out…
DEPO is hosting Vahit Tuna’s second solo exhibition, a project that is built upon the themes and “unfinished” matters that continue to preoccupy the artist after his first solo exhibition, “Egzersiz” (Exercise), at Hafriyat two years ago.
Tuna traces moments of resemblance and differentiation that are being experienced between subjects in regard to their exposure to the dynamics of omnipotent spectacle. He concentrates on the transitivity between the singular view of the individual and the collectivity of the majority. Like when the spectators at a football game focus on the ball rather than the star striker who rushes into the penalty area, when they relate to the object in an identical manner even though they sit in different places at the stands, or like hundreds of people holding the same flag at a large demonstration that carries an emotional equality.
Tuna carries over subheadings he used in “Egzersiz” such as “disinformation,” “mass disinformation” and “power apparatus” to his second exhibition as basic part of the problematique; he embarks on questioning the roles assigned to us by constructed reality and measuring up the costumes that we are all supposed to wear. In addition to the works spread around the DEPO annex building the installation which will welcome viewers in the courtyard leading to the entrance of the space will be also available for viewing during the days and hours DEPO is closed.
A book on the exhibition “Egzersiz,” as well as “Hep seyirciyiz zaten…” (We were always spectators…) will be published before the exhibition ends.
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