Casting the Circle
Galerist, İstanbul - 2015
Artists: Mükerrem Tuncay, Romina Meriç, Luna Ece Bal
Curator: Aslı Seven
The exhibition’s title refers to the multiple meanings associated with the act of casting: casting a mold to give form to matter, casting a spell or cards to see and effect the future, casting actors to play out a role, or casting a net to abstract a meaningful portion from the wider expanse of reality. Casting a circle is then to draw an impassable spatial and temporal limit that suspends the acquired knowledge of reality to suggest alternate modes of producing meaning and action; while at the same time it refers to contemporary feminist revaluations of practices of magic and witchcraft. The circle that is cast by each one of these three artists acts as a hole within the fabric of the real. The works in the exhibition propose metamorphic relationships between altered states of consciousness, sleep and wakefulness, science and magic, human body parts and elements of landscape. - excerpt from exhibition text by text by Aslı Seven
