MEMORY IN MOTION COMPOSITE EXHIBITION

The Memory in Motion Composite Exhibition was held between 3 November and 30 November 2017 at the Adnan Saygun Art Center, within the scope of the International Symposium on Mediterranean in Motion organized by the Izmir Mediterranean Academy. The exhibition included works by the artists Çağatay Çevik, Naile Çevik and Zeliha Kayahan.

Graphic designs of Çağatay Çevik elaborated in a minimalist approach, Naile Çevik’s ceramic works of an eclectic structure and Zeliha Kayahan’s painting and print works were exhibited. Çağatay Çevik presented the motion process of his personal memory layer by layer. Naile Çevik presented through hybrid productions the applicability of different disciplines on the same terrain to obtain original productions. Zeliha Kayahan’s works referred to a production spiral that is constant change and transformation, the institutional layers of which lay in abstractions beyond time and space.

Cultural memory forms the layers of social memory through the formation of a collective language of personal memories through time. In a sense, this constitutes a spiral of melting and vanishing within each other. Çağatay Çevik, Naile Çevik and Zeliha Kayahan produced original works that take off from their fictional memories and met under the theme of ‘Mediterranean in Motion’. In this sense, their look at Mediterranean in Motion was a multilayered and dynamic reflection of their looks at their own inner worlds in particular, and to the world and even to universe in general.