Sarkis Mirror / Ayna

At your first step into the gallery, between the time that passes between breathing in and out, in other words, during one full cycle of the air through your body, the light of the exhibition, after passing through your pupils, will unite with your breath. From this moment on, you are inside the body of the exhibition. We proceed with its rhythm, its sound: Now we are at the corner of Çaylak Street and Vergniaud Street. At one side is the uncanny juxtaposition of vehemently leaking sunlight through the window of Sarkis' mother's flat in the building where his first atelier was located, at the street where he was born, and the blind wall covering the other window strangely, Istanbulishly; at the other side are traces on the emptied wall of the atelier on Vergniaud, laden with the freight of about forty-five years... Thus starts mirror: with birth, with the atelier, with Sarkis' memory.

This catalogue has been published for the exhibition titled Mirror at Dirimart Dolapdere between January 18 - February 19 2017

88 pp, color figures, pb, in Turkish-English bilingual.