TAKEN

UYGUR YILMAZ

6 NOVEMBER 2014 - 13 DECEMBER 2014

CO-PİLOT will be hosting the solo exhibition of Uygur Yılmaz, Taken, between November 6 and December 13. 

The artist continues to focus on the aftermath of summertime when holiday spots are most crowded and on the human traces left behind. In the exhibition "Taken", the ready-mades that he has been preoccupied with recently, join his photographs that act as silent witnesses of tourism’s off-season (literally dead-season in Turkish). 

The objects he collects in expeditions at beaches and surroundings or the remains he comes upon during the off-season come together under one roof after the artist’s touch. This method lends his practice an archeological dimension. He picks up an old billbook of a cafeteria from a junkyard and turns it into a memory carrier; he puts on display the piece of a paddle boat washed up onto the shore after he dresses its wound. 

In the exhibition "Taken", the artist deals with ideas of dysfunctionality / loss of function and vulnerability; he explores ways of reinterpretation.  While transforming the waste of tourism, he poses a new question: “ ... when I interfere into the course of recycling industry, do I spare these objects off the cycle of consumerism, or do they re-gain function as they become part of another industry, namely the art world?

The three-dimensional works that are at the foreground of the exhibition both pursues the liminality between land and sea, winter and summer, culture and chaos; and also opens way to a new period for the artist both in terms of content and material.