//Unforeseen Serendipity//

With a group exhibition composed of artists most of whom have recently joined the gallery, CDA-Projects is opening up for the new season. Artists of the exhibition are integrating their peculiar artistic languages with their again peculiar, “original” stories and approaches. Hosting different materials from installations to photographs, videos to wall application, the exhibition provides the freedom and the polyphony to “tell” of diverse things side-by-side.

Selçuk Artut, Janet Bellotto, Burçak Bingöl, Elif Varol Ergen, Zeren Göktan, Zeynep Kayan, Nazlı Eda Noyan, Funda Susamoğlu

UNCANNY ENCOUNTERS

Silva Bingaz, Banu Cennetoğlu, Çınar Eslek, Zeren Göktan, Zeynep Kayan, Melisa Önel

“Uncanny” (Unheimlich) is a concept employed mainly in art and philosophy to describe the unsettling feeling evoked by something that is strange and foreign, yet astonishingly close and familiar at the same time. Uncanniness has ties to a peculiar sense of “déjà vu,” and implies the unpredictable, the unexpected, the unclear, the recalled, and the uncertain. The first encounter with a photograph generates an uncanny feeling. Certain photographs also present a subject, object, or form which can be uncanny, and the photographer’s own approach may render the visual outcome uncanny. If so, does the fact that some photographs strike us as remote or close have something to do with the unconscious? If a photograph can express different meanings to the photographer and to the viewer, how can it be related to the individual memory?

When she looked up at me, her hair was in her face. I pushed it back with my hands and it was wet too but not from outside but from crying. I picked up a tear on my finger and put it in my eyes.

Friends are usually the best to rely on what to read. When I was five I killed myself is one of those books, i took the advise and surprise, surprise, again it all was true : i loved it. Burt, an 8 year-old boy’s pure love story you get to know little by little. Feels like something you know very well, but then it shakes you with its weird intensity. Below is the famous Oh Mr. Moon’s lyrics that Burt remembers from his music lesson at school.

Oh Mr Moon, Moon
Bright and Silvery Moon
Won’t you please shine down on me.
Oh Mr Moon, Moon
Bright and Silvery Moon
I’m as blue as I can be

z.
July 2011