Through the Reflections (À Travers les Reflets)
by Eylül ÇEKIÇ
The artist Eylül ÇEKIÇ, born in Turkey in 1995. After her studies at the École des Beaux-Arts in Montpellier, she moved to Paris to broaden her conceptual outlook on the Fine Arts and is pursuing a master’s in philosophy at Université Paris VIII in order to specialize in art and culture analysis and criticism.
The exhibition curator, Ece Ipar TIBET, born in Turkey in 1996. After earning her bachelor’s degree in art history at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, she is now in her second year of the master’s in contemporary art market/distribution and sale of artworks at IESA.
In this exhibition, the artist works in black and white with photography to carve out a path of conceptual expression in the turmoil of a world she seeks to grasp through a gaze sensitive to its human and political aspects.
The exhibition also features her video works, in which she regularly references the history of art and cinema. On the art history side, she takes the female body as a reference. This is a distinctive feature for her, because the representation of the female body is extremely rare in the artistic tradition of the East throughout history. According to the artist, one must draw the eye in order to revive the hidden sensitivity in the viewer and document it. She questions issues that cut across layers of time: with a self-critical eye on her own practice as a video artist and photographer, she thus examines the relationships to the body and female nudity that viewers should maintain with a work of art.
Through her photographic series, she aims to awaken in the viewer the perception of a shared identity, ego, or temperament. We will also see dualities. Moreover, as the exhibition title expresses, throughout the exhibition there is always a feeling of being caught by a reflection, even though the medium changes. The videos, photographs, and installations form a dialogue in order to create this feeling of reflection throughout.
