Reduplications

July 2023 - June 2024
İZMİR

Reduplications is a video project conceived upon experience and expression problems related to dominant physical and institutional structures. The project makes use of the psychogeography concept: while analyzing the urban and environment phenomena with their individual and social layers, it suggests a different approach to motion that is based on routines and repetitions. The project breaks the passive impression related to urban landscaping in transportation by means of vehicles, as used in everyday routines, aiming to prioritize the active experience in the act of walking. Such act, providing the video its primary action, explores the inner and outer observation of the person by way of slowness and stepping, and aims to discuss, through the perspective provided by the orbit road, the urbanization problem of Izmir, and anonymization of its historical urban culture and architecture as a result of the country’s sociopolitical processes. Environmental arrangements also provide spatial control, similar to that provided by structures which ensure cognitive and behavioral control and arrange activities of work and life. The reduplications, which the project is named after, provide symbolic and metaphorical signs related to the urban right and freedom of expression problems regarding such controls and arrangements, also intersecting with the visual data presented by the environment.

Ezgi Yakın

Ezgi Yakın (1988, Ankara) received her undergraduate degree in 2010 and graduate degree in 2015 from the Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Fine Arts Painting Department. She continues her Doctor of Arts education and is a staff member at the same department. Yakın’s creations are based on references comprising of parts, traces and remains that belong to spaces related to environment and urban experience, architectural structures and everyday objects. In her practice utilizing various media, she focuses on the visual and conceptual probabilities of those which are incompatible with or residual in the structural order of daily life. Her personal exhibitions are “Juncture” (Tabacka Kulturfabrik, Kosice, 2019) and “Peculiar Time” (Simbart Project, Istanbul, 2019). Her selected exhibitions include “In the Footsteps of Dry Water” (K2 Performance, Izmir, 2023), “Cracking a Door” (Nazım Hikmet Cultural Center, Bursa, 2022), “Contact” (Darağaç, Izmir, 2021), “Changing Perspective” (Simbart Project, Istanbul, 2020), “Young, New, Different 9” (Zilberman Gallery, Istanbul 2018) and “Atopos Project” (Versus Art Project, Istanbul, 2018). The artist has participated artist residence programs, both domestic and abroad. She is also an independent curator and her articles have been published in various art publications. She lives and works in Izmir.

This page is published on 7 December 2023.