Istanbul’s Futy Gallery hosts Seval Özcan’s solo exhibition Surprise Me. The exhibition continues until Oct 6.
The painter focuses on the things that surprise us in our daily lives and notices them.
Özcan said: “In people’s busy lives nowadays, everything passes by quickly without being noticed. The book ‘My Sweet Orange Tree’ by Jose Mauro De Vasconcelos mentions that nothing surprises us. Now we are in a time when there are many moments like this.’’
Özcan started her artistic journey from the past, from the motifs in her childhood memories. She aims to build a bridge from the past to the future that is hard to destroy through her work.
“We all need to see, notice, and be surprised a bit. That’s why I named my first solo exhibition ‘Surprise Me.’ My goal is to bring this exhibition together with audiences in various countries in different series. I believe that it will be an exhibition where we will all be surprised by the art and colors. I invite you to look at life through my kaleidoscope. Together, we will notice the gaps that are the essence of life and give them meaning with moments and memories. With my exhibition, I create a space for the audience and art lovers to breathe through my works in the rush of today’s world, and I invite them to question and fill the gaps in my works with their truths and lives through motifs from their realities and memories,” she says.
The digital artworks in the exhibition are projected onto the wall screens and create more immersive spatial experiences for the viewer. The sound system sponsor of the exhibition is a global brand, Bang & Olufsen. There are also VR virtual glasses in the exhibition.
Digital works all originate from her own creations and have meaningful stories behind them. “Listening to and observing the world of young people is very important to me. The new generation wants to be a part of your work, to become one with it.”
