Art On Istanbul meets its visitors with Kerem Giriş's solo exhibition titled "Where It All
Started" at Art On Piyalepaşa between April 20 and May 11.
The primordial timbre that glass evokes in terms of its given meaning refers to its fragility
and naivety. Glass is an inorganic substance that needs to be protected. At the moment of
breakage, the tempting substance suddenly sharpens and takes on a presence that can
pose a danger.
Leaving aside the historical use of glass as an aesthetic element, we are talking about an
inorganic material that is often instrumentalized for human purposes. Glass evolves into
objects of use through the taming of its solid and hard-formed materiality and the
organization of various non-human elements. Glasses, pitchers, spectacles, mirrors,
windows, lenses are the first apparatuses of use that come to mind. The fact that glass is
permeable and makes differences visible while reflecting makes it an attractive object.
It is the games he played in his childhood that bring together all kinds of ethnicities such
as identity, race and religion without discrimination, and from this point of view, Giriş
reconstructs the game. This is a desire to look again at a neighborhood that has become
amnesiac, is about to lose its memory and is taking firm steps towards uniformization.
The desire to start the game again from where you left off, It is a longing for polyphony,
fragmented in the name of "progress".
