SOLO EXHIBITION / EMBARKED ON AN EVARLASTING RETURN
Embarked On An Everlasting Return@ DEPO
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CLICK FOR THE EXHIBITON TEXT21 November 2020 – 15 January 2021Exhibition Design: Özden DemirSevil Tunaboylu’s solo exhibition Embarked on An Everlasting Return is a trial on the
lightness of navigating around the possibilities places and entities offer, without allowing a
sense of belonging to develop. The title of the exhibition, which refers to an engagement
with the world in this particular manner, touches upon both routines and movements. In Tunaboylu’s practice, there are exercises on cohabition of the objects she encounters,
portraits that are left out of the frame whose tracess we witness, depictions of spaces
fragmented by light beams on paper. The possibility of the two dimensional transforming
into three dimensional evoked by these pieces that every now and then turns also into clay
sculptures, appears as a repeating pattern in the exhibition. Alongside the translation of
paintings into sculptures, re-examining her subject by switching between different mediums;
through paintings of photographs and photographs of sculptures, constitutes one of the
research methods the artist employs.
Drawings and installations that support the fragmented structure of the exhibition simultaneously document the path that was taken and serve as a guide to comprehend the path that will be taken. Embarked on An Everlasting Return consists of works that meditate the process of building a sense of belonging to a new surrounding; through the artist’s own terms, in her own time, based on her own singular experience, step by step.                            |
