9 February–9 March 2013
İstiklal Caddesi Mısır Apt.
No 163 K: 3 D: 10
Beyoğlu İstanbul 34430
Galeri Zilberman is pleased to announce Ahmet Elhan’s solo show, Mürekkep (Composed), in which the artist transforms the human figure by exploring the limits of photographic image and developing his own technologies.
The title of the exhibition, Mürekkep, is a homograph in Turkish, meaning both “ink” and “composed of.” It is used in the former in reference to the surface quality and the platinum-palladium print Elhan uses in this series, while the second meaning refers to the decisions concerning the compositions.
Ahmet Elhan’s departure point for all his works is a deep engagement with the ontology of photographic image. His photographs deconstruct integral elements of photography, such as the simulation of human perception by the apparatus, time-based creation of the image and its claims to a realistic representation.
After working on the series titled Diptychs, Time/Space, Views, Places that construct refracted spaces overlapped in time, in Mürekkep (Composed), Elhan revisits the human figure as a post/inter-sexual being in reference to Jean-Baptise Van Mour’s gravures that appear in historical interior spaces of Istanbul. He suggests an accumulative notion of time as he represents the androgynous hermaphrodite figures in motion. The multi-dimensional anonymous subject becomes charged with agency through the suggested perspectivism.
Ahmet Elhan (b. 1959, İzmir) lives and works in İstanbul. He graduated from The Department of Graphic Design, Marmara University, İstanbul and Department of Cinema and Television, Dokuz Eylül University, İzmir. He has a number of solo exhibitions, each of which mark a turning point in the use of photographic technologies.
Gallery information
Galeri Zilberman was founded in 2008 and is located in Misir Apartment, which is centrally located on Istiklal Street, the cultural center of Istanbul. Galeri Zilberman represents internationally acclaimed Turkish and international artists with outstanding works and also leading young Turkish artists.
