»GENESES« - Özlem Günyol, Mustafa Kunt, Levent Kunt
Video, Photographie, Installation
Özlem Günyol
Mustafa Kunt
Levent Kunt
Özlem Günyol
Learning a language is related not only to the understanding of a sentence structure and the meaning of words, but also to the organization of letters. Furthermore, it is also characteristic for any language that the person calling the words with a certain sound and rhythm designates the usage of that language. Even a person learning a new language still approaches to the foreign language with his/her own linguistic melody and rhythm, and this phenomenon sometimes causes misunderstanding. In this work, it is intended to show a different type of language in a writing, which is made with pronounciations of the English words in Turkish language, by using the explanations about pronounciations of the words, of English-Turkish dictionary. In this way, this created writing includes and excludes both languages at the same time. In this work, it is also aimed at designating the gap between the visual perception of language and the practice of speaking which depends on the way the person pronounces and attributes certain characteristics to the words belonging to his/her past.
The cables of electrical devices to be found in kitchen, next to the exhibition hall, will be connected to the plugs in exhibition hall and the cables of the electrical devices used for the exhibition (vodeo, t.v., etc.) will be connected to the plugs in the kitchen. Hence, two different spaces will have connected by the electricity, which is generally constructed for practical reasons. The apparition constituted by the network of cables from shifting one space to another also intends to show the flow in this net.
Mustafa Kunt
Two video works (The man talking from the other side 55minute, The finger 45minute) represents Mustafa Kunt’s abilities and plays developed and explored from his childhood. The basic characteristics of the application of plays and abilities is their “unaccustomed ” features.In “The finger” video, Mustafa Kunt puts his little toe on the top of the next finger periodically. In the other video work, during 55 minute, Mustafa Kunt speaks the words from the other way around in türkish and explains how he started to begin talking like that. The video work in its atmosphere makes (the) spectator listening something as if it is very serious. According to Mustafa Kunt, concentration through talking creates this illusion.In both videos Mustafa Kunt also tries to force himself by making these performances as long as he can do.
Levent Kunt
In Levent Kunt’s video work, spectator observes the rolling of a ball followed by the camera. The movement of rolling arises spectator’s curiosity. Actually, the ball circulated in the same space without really giving clues about the limits of that space. However the movement of the ball is directed towards a toy car within a construction constituted by Levent Kunt. Besides, the spectator sometimes feels the movement of ball oriented by toy car when it is turned. But only at the end of the video when the ball escapes from the costruction and leave the screen freely, the condition of being directed becomes clear and shooting stops at the same time.
