Art On İstanbul invites visitors to Art On Pera from April 29 to May 27 for Hüseyin
Aksoylu’s solo exhibition Magnetic.
In Magnetic, Hüseyin Aksoylu constructs an alternative reality through materials left
humanless in a world where nothing remains constant amidst continuity. Objects that we
often consume beyond need—and then discard, hiding them in distant corners of the
landscape—now reconstruct their own bodies while carrying the memory of the hands
that once used them and the collective imagination of a society that dreamed of
producing them.
Yet all these materials, once scattered across the Earth, can, for a short while, stand
before us as consolation, attesting to the existence of a flawed and dazzling species that
produced endlessly without ever considering the environmental cost of their creations. It
seems that Aksoylu’s compositions can wound a potential audience, leaving those who do
not doubt the extraordinariness and permanence of our species exposed and confronted
with the fact that one day they might be rendered obsolete. Meanwhile, viewers who
acknowledge the truth of being equal to every matter and every form of energy may
instead be invited to partake in the joy of a cosmic dance, where existence and
nonexistence pull and push each other from opposite poles.
