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| ARTISSIMA 2025 Installation Shot |
Öktem Aykut brings together a duo presentation by Francesco Albano and Aret Gıcır. Francesco Albano presents sculptures from his latest series The Blind Leading the Blind. Albano turns the metaphor of blindness into a physical and emotional condition. Drawing on the moral and political power of Bruegel’s famous painting, Albano stages a moment of imminent collapse, not just of bodies, but of memory itself. The three figures, bound together by elastic tension, navigate the space as if memory were a mechanical prosthesis that is fractured, uncertain, and partial. Through fragile materials and ambiguous postures, Albano creates a sculptural vocabulary of accident and loss. They resist stability, suggesting that in the absence of clear direction or vision, what remains is the instinct to connect, to lean, to carry and be carried, even blindly. Aret Gıcır's new series Before Leaving consists of 16 paintings. Each piece is interlaced with layer upon layer of tonalities and refractions of light and darkness, each intended brushstroke seeking to envelope itself, creating contrasts between and depths that are reminiscent of fleeting shadows. Each painting stands as an autonomous entity yet gains new meanings through its relationship with neighboring pieces, and the whole is continuously redefined. With Albano and Gıcır's works, the viewer is lured into enchanting abyss, ambiguity reconnects with robust textures and a viscerally intense perception.
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