Silent Shape of Things

With:
Sophia Pompéry

Curator: Ece Pazarbaşı

THE SILENT SHAPE OF THINGS - Sophia Pompéry

Arter hosts Sophia Pompéry’s first solo exhibition in Istanbul. Pompéry produces video works and objects derived from her interest in everyday objects and physical phenomena. Her works are motivated by a desire to slow down the sense of time, characterised by a picturesque quality and a subtly arranged visual element. “The Silent Shape of Things” features Pompéry’s video installations, projections and objects, including “Kawala Play”, “Miralamentira”, “Still Water”, “Two Meters” and “Plenty Empty.”

The viewer is usually transported to another realm of experience when encountering Pompéry’s works for the first time. The process that occurs between the initial viewing and the moment that the viewer departs for another encounter is nothing but a chain reaction, linking the visitor’s emotions and perceptions, and a vague provocation created by the artist. With each of her works, be it “Plume”, “Plopp Plopp” or “Quader Luft”, we are caught up in Pompéry’s highly elegant and poetic trap. Instead of denying the realities we are already experiencing, the artist builds another reality on top of what we currently observe in our lives. While doing this, she also plays with our perception of perspective very poetically, as in “Kawala Play” or “Still Water”.

www.sophiapompery.de

www.arter.org.tr