2024 • Broken Horizon

Galerist is pleased to present Ayça Telgeren’s fifth solo exhibition at the gallery titled Broken Horizon between March 7 and 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.