Passing By..., ÖktemAykut Gallery, İstanbul

1.12..2017 - 6.1.2018

At passing by..., Kantürk questions the time he has come to spent as a contemporary

artist, archivist, curator and a full-time academician. The exhibition consists of various

moves and sections that unfold themselves within the intellectual flow where all these

identities peacefully intermingle. Passing by... may also be defined as a personal

narrative focusing on the linear and cyclical passing of time through the ontological and

practical positions of an artist.

Kantürk's first solo exhibition in Turkey since 2012, passing by... concludes a trilogy

where each show may also be treated separately.

In this show, Kantürk eliminates and raises a certain number of visual traces that prove

consistent throughout the processes of production and observation. The exhibition is

composed of photographs, drawings, paintings and installations that reveal an

autobiographical story of testimonies and pursuits for past moments, an individual

narrative that touches the trail of different roles and production processes assumed in

the realm of contemporary art.

Focusing on the way time is being consumed, the way it is produced, its varying speed

and its ephemerality, Kantürk explores how else to define new reflexes against the

notion of time.

This exploration is an effort to understand intertemporality amongst different positions

in life and to describe the quotidian.