Lal Batman: Exposé

Anna Laudel presents Lal Batman’s solo exhibition Exposé between February 10 and March 27, 2022. 

The exhibition includes a wide range of works, from oil paintings to digital illustration, from holograms to NFT and video art, produced by digital and plastic art materials.

Curated by Assoc. Prof. Ebru Yetişkin, the exhibition presents by means of artistic research on how digital platforms contribute to socio-cultural change. 

In today’s world, as the concept of ‘Metaverse’ enters our lives, Batman explores how digital communication technologies are used in everyday life. Inspired by observations and questioning of contemporary visual culture, Batman’s each selected work reflects our intertwined bodies, images and minds. 

At the same time, instead of breaking the spell of the glittering lives that are increasingly exhibited and exposed under the influence of digital culture, the artist connects with the erotic nature of today’s desires to expose, reveal, watch (and to be watched), follow (and to be followed), peek and (to be peeked), and adds her own interpretations to these phenomena.

Focusing on current versions of these desires, Exposé, which means “to exhibit and to reveal”, takes a closer look at how we reflect each other and ourselves. 

Exposé can be visited until March 27, 2022 at Anna Laudel’s gallery space located at Kazancı Yokuşu 45.

Lal Batman
Artist and curator Lal Batman continues her academic education on plastic arts at Yeditepe University. She spent her academic years studying and actively developing herself in plastic arts. She produces her works with a multi-disciplinary approach. She participated in various fairs and symposiums in Athens, Berlin, Chios Island, İstanbul, Miami, Paris, and Tokyo. Batman creates her art by blending digital and plastic tools and techniques. She works on concept-oriented projects with video art, digital manipulation, digital illustration, sculpture and oil painting productions. Besides her interest in art history, and her artist identity, she also took part in various projects as a curator. In 2020, Batman held the role of coordinator at the exhibition titled “Love Over Entropy” showcased at Anna Laudel. She also works as an independent designer at a design agency in Milan. Presenting a conceptual approach with her versatile productions in eclectic formats, Batman lives and works both in Istanbul, Turkey and Belgrade, Serbia.

Ebru Yetişkin
Ebru Yetişkin is an Istanbul based curator and researcher, who is working on the interaction of science, technology and art. She studied Radio-TV-Cinema as a bachelor degree in Istanbul University. Then she attended the master program on Science, Technology and Society in Istanbul Technical University and Université Louis Pasteur, and started working on the impact of uncertainty of science in the policy making process. She completed the PhD program in sociology in Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in 2008. She conducted the preliminary phase of her thesis research in Centre Sociologie de L’Innovation in Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris and Palais de Tokyo as a visiting scholar. Since 2003, she has been working as a researcher in Istanbul Technical University and teaching sociology, contemporary art and media related courses. She also gave classes in New York University and Inholland University as a guest teaching staff. She curated new media art related exhibitions.