“MEDIUM” is a site-specific installation created with multichannel lighting, audio, video and objects that transforms Kasa Galeri into a viewer-focused experience stage dealing with the relationship between art and place.
Designed and built by the y o ğ u n l u k art initiative, the installation isolates Kasa Galeri’s existing memory from historicity and explores new meanings that may be found for spatial regime. “MEDIUM” reveals the framework of the relationship between artist-work of art and the viewer, articulating the connection between thought and form onto the receptive process of the viewer. As a concept, "Medium" means instrument, intermediary, intervening substance, channel; here in its artistic context, it creates the environment that is necessary for the work of art to materialize. The viewer becomes a component of “MEDIUM” and gains the quality of a form in an atmospheric setting where subject and object, fiction and reality constantly change place and evolve into each other. The entrance to Kasa Galeri feels like a vestibule... a gap, a threshold, while medium opens the doors to an experience where now and here are transformed along Gestalt processes.
About y o ğ u n l u k: An Istanbul-based art initiative founded by İsmail Eğler, Nil Aynalı Eğler and Elif Tekir in 2013, then strengthened with the participation of Nezih Vargeloğlu, y o ğ u n l u k focuses on the relationship between the artistic act and the space, creating installations, performances and site-specific organizations. y o ğ u n l u k had its first exhibition ‘Axis Mundi’ in 2014 at the Adahan Hotel. This was followed by the "Suruhu" exhibition at the Byzantine Nakilbent Cistern in Sultanahmet (2015). In the same year, they made a fog installation (Sublime) on the façade of Zorlu PSM upon the invitation of Artnivo. They were represented by an installation called "Timeless" in the Historical Gavur Hamam in Antalya as part of the Antalya Architecture Biennial. In 2017, they took part in the 15th Istanbul Biennial with ‘The House’, an installation in their own studio. The group is currently working on the Istanbul Water Museum that will be opened in the historical Eyüp Hamam.
yoğunluk@yogunluk.org
