Curation: Begüm Güney

Venue: The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Istanbul

Opening - Closing Dates: 07 March 2024 - 08 March 2024

Photography: Emirkan Cörüt

The exhibition RTV-2 HRPgül, named after an undefined code, is created by the materials that constitute it. Stripped of emotions, this description resembles a mechanical and digital form, materialized by an unexpected biological corporeal body.

The pieces are held up by a 250 kilogram laser-cut HRPO steel skeleton along with 90 silicone casted parts and 2000 CNC machined POM plastic nuts and bolts. Utilizing a language of fragmented limbs, it contains 17 LED displays that move in two dimensions. Such a material composition aims to monumentalize a biomorphic body that is moving away from its existence.

Apart from the LED displays with which it constantly communicates with a kinetic language, its stationary, corner-less mutated structure affirms a new representation of the body. The eerie composite form that permeates the pieces doesn’t point to a dystopia; it rather tends towards a structural creation of the zeitgeist. It was preferred to be exhibited in a dull and desolate area. Synthesized as an icon of loneliness in an enclosed space, the pieces stand in isolation, ironically beneath ceiling windows that open up to clear sky. These nearly colorless lonely pieces establish a metaphysical language with their luminous screens, distant and aloof, culminating in complex hybrid forms that do not directly reveal themselves.

These bodies, completely alien to anything pertaining to the human body and its inevitable decay, are part of the everchanging new world signified by its lack of tactility. With their installation aiming to concretize a representational body, Çavuşoğlu is interested in what exists despite all the intricacies in their language.

-Begüm Güney
Translated by Meriç Çavuşoğlu