Opening: the engineers came in
Filiz Özçelik
Guided tour: Türkçe rehberli tur / Führung in türkischer Sprache
Filiz Özçelik
Guided tour: Sanat ve Şiir Buluşması
Filiz Özçelik
In her first institutional solo exhibition at artothek - Raum für junge Kunst, Filiz Özçelik is showing a selection of reliefs and pictures on the wall that were created as collages from her archive of everyday found objects.
The title of the exhibition refers to a line from a poem by the Turkish-Kurdish poet Cemal Süreya: "the engineers came; they even draw the picture of the cat with a ruler". Filiz Özçelik takes this description of an absurdly technocratic approach to the world as the motivation and driving force behind her current creative process. In her works, she searches for a pictorial logic that ties in with poetic linguistic images and, like these, finds a form in a constant process of forming and disintegrating again. Just as the word "ruler" can be translated in German as "Lineal" or "Herrscher", the artist imposes an order on her works, from which a rhythm to the work develops as it is read. This rhythm can also be found in the poems, which serve as her source of inspiration and world of reference.
Coming from printmaking, she covers her objects with a muted colour that makes them look like printing blocks. At the same time, the colourful setting of the arranged individual parts lends them a unifying component. From the physical object and the three-dimensional arrangement, Özçelik develops the usually two-dimensional graphic into a spatial work.
