Signals

ATIF AKIN

6 SEPTEMBER - 26 OCTOBER

PİLOT hosts Signals, Atif Akin’s first solo exhibition in Istanbul between September 6 to October 26, 2024.

Signals is a select group of works from Akin's long term research project over the past ten years on radiation, mutation and archaeology.

Akin’s work is about technoscientific criticism in the context of contemporary art, science, and politics. Integrating technology as both subject and means of expression, Akın explores issues that are considered sensitive in the public discourse, unlocking them from the rigid political categories in which they reside.

Over the last decade, Akın has been researching radioactivity and mutant spaces creating a lens into the deep nuclear time. The research contemplates the nuclear as a time-space interface, surveying the historical sites of importance globally. 

The visual style of the work is an outcome of studies of scientific visualizations, explosions, sublime frequencies, overtones and gaze that they create in the landscape. Akin reflects on the creation of new mythologies analogical to radioactive deformations of code.

Signals play a crucial role in both science and communication. They are key for transmitting information, observation, and understanding and communicating complex systems. In the context of this exhibition signals are connections across nuclear time and spaces. 

The select group of works at the co-Pilot are a collection of signals from the deep time and radioactive spaces and Akin’s body of work as they pertain to his long term research on nuclear mobility.