Black Box – Gökçen Cabadan
NON will be hosting Gökçen Cabadan’s solo exhibition Black Box between November 25 – December 30.
A black box gives us clues about a plane crash. The only remaining clue from the accident might be this information. This analysis is a Freudian process, which uses the past clues as a means to define the incident, the moment, and the place.
In his installations Gökçen Cabadan reuses idealized family visuals, animal representations, and health books, which are created to explain the situations in the simplest way possible. According to the artist, those images generate a prototype by bringing the body and objects to perfection. Cabadan turns these presentations and reflections into painting objects by metamorphosing them.
An accelerated visual will be decelerated by resolving its layers of paint and the meaning that this image enforces to us will lose its strength.
Those idealized visuals’ discrimination of others, limitation of us in the space, and categorization of us is a chance for all of us to get to know ourselves. Because we will feel that we are in a place as opposed to the feeling of being meaningless without those boundaries. But our liberties will not be lost if we do not forget that those boundaries also flow in the space. We can think of the claim that the modern man is the “best man” in the history of humanity, as the clues that remain from an accident in Cabadan’s personal story and works.