Pg Art Gallery Istanbul is proud to present an exhibition entitled ‘To look’,
from February 1-23. Three photographers: Jak Baruh, Maura Sullivan and Levent Özçelik. The play of each photographer's unique sensibility against the borders of the form enables us to reconsider our ideas of what makes a photograph.
With his series entitled “Pop CubArt”, Jak Baruh composes images from Cuba that reflect the cultural transformation of the island nation. With a perspective inherent to the United States, Baruh frames the effects of American culture on Cuba. Using direct signs, superimposed icons, and cult or even kitsch images resembling Pop Art, the artist combines photography with the narrative styles of the twentieth century.
Maura Sullivan’s cinematographic works carries analog photography to a privileged point of resistance in our increasingly digital culture. Sullivan’s pictures are scenes of mystery and obfuscation, lost fragments of time and space, dropping hints that then constantly elude the spectator. Each print has a dream-like quality, a representation of a fragment in one's mind, somewhere between fiction and memory.
In Levent Özçelik’s work, photography steps out of the two-dimensional world. Displaying his prints on reflective surfaces, Özçelik plays with the relationship between photography and reflection, on a literal and symbolic basis. The art's most basic union, of light and an object, shifts and changes; we're asked to consider the dissidence and confluence between the print, the glass in front of it, our image on a window, and a reflection on water.
