HORASAN'S “NE GAM BÂKİ, NE DEM BÂKİ” EXHIBITION AT MERKUR 

 

“In Horasan's paintings, alternating bodies from 2010 to the present move away from the frightening atmosphere of twilight, settle into the void, become independent, liberate, and simplified. The surrealist narrative focuses directly on images of bodies integrating with nature; the viewer is invited to interpret the truth presented by Khorasan through the signs of these alternating bodies.

 

In the series of paintings watched at MERKUR, Horasan places the human and animal figures integrating the human and animal figures in the exhibition titled The Vagrant Spider in Ankara Siyah Beyaz Gallery in 2018, this time in the world experiencing the global virus disaster that has been experienced for two years.  Horasan presents a new change in production in this series. 

 

Satirical yet relentless of brutal altercation, the paintings mirror disturbing current events in society and use surrealism to provoke debate. The disturbing climate of the time, unprecedented disasters, the effects of discrimination, satire, caricature, grotesque and humor images aim to seduce the audience. This is a method of seduction; It proposes a language that embraces a conscious absurdity, a habitual fantasy, and a dashing uncanny, and asks the viewer to be necessarily engaged in vital issues. The use of common words in contemporary life in the paintings, the humorization of the complex-bodied person, and the common illustrative images show that Horasan wants the viewer to reach the truth of the time without difficulty with these paintings.”

 

Alternating Bodies, Uncanny Faces, Reactive Words

Excerpt from the exhibition text, Beral Madra 2022