‘Visibility Range Zero’ exhibition in Diyarbakır
This exhibition aims to bring together the contemporary artists who are living on the North and South part of Cyprus. This exhibition is taking place in Diyarbakir which is considered an important circulation centre where contemporary art will be produced with the cooperation between Diyarbakir Arts Centre and EMAA.
This exhibition is produced from the idea of Karl Theodor Jaspers [23 February 1883, Oldenburg-26 February 1969, Basel] “border-situation” [Grenzsituation] where contemporary art is considered successful. The new situation of artists and their works as well as the audiences of these works are considered through the gap of visibility range and information of the audience which is considered to be zero. Successful artists and unseccesful artists dualisms of cultural industries are touched upon and how the aura is gone when the artist thinks they actually see the foggy curtain.
According to Jaspers, serious infections ( infection in this case refers to how art can modify and change a community) , serious crimes ( career and success turns out in favor of the artist),risk of death (a work of art not breating for a moment). These types of events which focus on existence is the ‘ border-situation’. One’s head ( in this case the artist) is released from the ideals of the govenment and understand the space/gap of science.
People (artists in this exhibition) live the border situation unsuccessfully but this provides another type of success; Existence is proven thought failure.
In other words, he or she reaches its existence through this particular failure. Visibility range zero exhibition is about the temporary foggy curtain and the harsh reality of how failure is very hard to deal with.
ABDO (Picture), Berat Işık (Video), Cengiz Tekin (Photograph), Erkan Özgen (Photograph), Şener Özmen (Video), Kıbrıs Türk kesiminden, Ateş Kozal (Video), Osman Keten (Picture), Türegün Tunç (video), Özgül Ezgin(Photograph), Zehra Şonya (Mounting) will be attending from Diyarbakir and Nicholas Panayi (Picture), Adi Atassi (Mounting), Yiannos Economou (video) and Fotis Theodoropoulos (Photograph) will attend this exhibition from the South part of Cyprus.
