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Image: Olan,Digital Print
Image: Olan,Digital Print |
Visibility 600 Metres –
Between Stillness and Flux in the Garden of the House of Envy
An Exibition by Mehmet Adil, DCA Candidate, Faculty of Creative Arts
26 July 2007 - 17 August 2007
Opened Thursday 26 July 2007 at 12.30pm
Originally from Cyprus, Mehmet Adil is now a permanent resident of Australia and a final year doctoral candidate with the Faculty of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong. Following an earlier career in engineering; Mehmet’s migration to the field of creative arts has seen him studying, teaching and exhibiting in Australia and abroad since 1986. This exhibition represents the works produced and the visual research processes engaged in during the period of his doctoral candidacy at UOW from 2004-2007.
From the artist…
This exhibition is also a continuation of approaches to visual research and artistic practice in which I have engaged over a longer period, to which the title in part makes reference.
This is investigation and experimentation with visual and other properties of apparently everyday materials, such as aluminium foil, bread, apples, matches, and pictures, to further develop recognition of habitual associative processes in registering and thinking about visual stimuli, with a view to openness to new possibilities; the all-at-once way in which ‘pictures’ are registered locates them with other familiar everyday objects in this sense.
I start with and depart from the assumption that such materials carry a relatively fixed range of visual association, alone and in relation to one another, particularly for people who are accustomed to regularly using and/or seeing them in the surroundings. The process is as much dependent on accumulation as on diminution of elements at play in the (set) visual field. The anxieties of time (and the times) and our relation to them could be considered part of the work.
My research into the visual rhetorics of nationalism, particularly in the contemporary national monuments in the Turkish Cypriot area of Cyprus, has both informed and been informed by this visual artistic investigative practice.
Mehmet Adil, July 2007
Mehmet’s research has been featured in issue 1, 2007 of Rhizome Magazine.
Rhizome Magazine showcases postgraduate research undertaken at the University of Wollongong and is an initiative of the Wollongong University Postgraduate Association (WUPA).
For more information see: http://www.uow.edu.au/wupa/
Image: Olan is a word that appears in the image close to the centre of the visual field, among other typed and handwritten words. Translated into English it refers to something in a state of "Beingness" or simply "That which exists".
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