Loyelow: Deniz Gül

" We only exist through the others who made up the storehouse of the mind: models in our first tentative steps toward identifying objects of our desires, helpers and foes. The mind is a palimpsest in which the traces of these figures will jostle and rearrange themselves forever more... We are "peopled" by others our psyche is a social space."

(Rose, 2011: 86)

Loyelow follows a lead initiated by the artist Deniz Gül in 2011 with her text “5 Person Bufet” which led to three artistic realizations and a performance, and her second solo show B.I.M.A.B.K.R.

In this exhibition, as often in Deniz Gul’s practice, the audience is invited to immerge in a young boy’s stream of consciousness symbolized by an abstraction of a room filled with his dream belongings. While stepping in  the exhibition space, and wandering among transitional objects, the viewer will get glimpses of his mind as if accessing his deepest thoughts, senses, hopes and dreams altered by the filter of memory. Somewhere between dream and reality, subconscious and conscious the viewer is invited to a sensorial experience.

Language and ideas, words and symbols, public and private spaces such are the binary relations the artist is dissecting to take out the dialectic of these mental constructions.

The exhibition will feature Gul’s first video “Stardust” and site-specific interventions. A large scale installation materialized by a yellow neon map“Loyelow Fields” and a glass sculpture “Teodora” will play the role of transitional objects. 

The artist’s novel of the same name will be published by Norgunk and will be available at the gallery.