ISTANBUL .- Galerist just commenced Ayça Telgeren’s fifth solo exhibition at the gallery titled Broken Horizon which began on March 7 and will continue through to April 27, 2024. Broken Horizon departs from the artist’s need to reposition her gaze at a place in time where intuitions and foresights become more and more vague. It considers the horizon’s physical and metaphorical associations and tries to understand them as a whole. Starting from the entrance of the Passage Petits-Champs building and continuing into the exhibition space in an axis, Telgeren interprets the space as a body, contacting on multiple levels.

The exhibition begins on the ground floor of the building, on the stairs that can no longer be opened to Istiklal Street, thereby stripping the building of its function as a passage, and carries on to the first floor: to the electrical cover at the entrance of the gallery, to the floors, walls, and then to the ceilings. In this exhibition, where we move away from our eye-centricism and go on a journey in the body of the building using all our perceptions, we are accompanied by the feminine forms of the concrete sculptures, ink paintings, charcoal drawings, and video works. Broken Horizon ignites an awareness that Passage Petits-Champs hosts us and allows us to wander through its body. As visitors navigate through the exhibition space, they are enveloped in an immersive experience that blurs the boundaries between art and architecture, inviting contemplation and reflection. The interplay of light and shadow, textures, and spatial arrangements further accentuates the artist's exploration of perception and spatial awareness. Each artwork serves as a catalyst for introspection, prompting viewers to reconsider their relationship with the built environment and their place within it. The exhibition leads the viewer beyond the physical confines of the gallery space, allowing a participatory exploration on multiple levels.

THE ARTIST

Ayça Telgeren (b. 1975, Gölcük) focuses on sentiments, potentials, in betweens and the emotions that is intuitively known and collectively felt, yet cannot be defined. The artist – starting with what is personal to her, her own archeology – tries to reach a pool of collective memory. Within the process, she defines herself more as an explorer rather than a constructor or an observer. The artist is widely known for her hand-cut works that she adopts as a natural form of expression. However Telgeren’s works demonstrate wide variety of materials and techniques that shape according to the needs of her current subject matter, ranging from metal, gas concrete, concrete sculptures, to video and peinture.

Telgeren completed her BA and MA in Painting at Mimar Sinan Faculty of Fine Arts. Having participated in numerous exhibitions nationally and internationally, she has also been a part of HAH artist collective since 2017.The artist currently lives and works in Istanbul.