Ali Kazma is known by his documentary and short films and academic career, besides who is one of the most internationally important figure in video art after the 7th biennial of Istanbul in 2001 as a jumping point of his artistic career, had began in 1999 with solo and joint exhibitions. Artist’s works (6 video and a wall installation) have been meeting with the audience by his new exhibition in Yapı Kredi Kazım Taşkent Art Gallery some of which are exhibited in different cities such as Milan or Lille, all of which are the components of the same series has created since 2005 after the same named work’s (Obstructions) display in the 10th biennial of Istanbul in the IMC hall.
Ali Kazma paraphrased in one of his interviews that the name of the exhibition is arisen from the human’ s obstructing efforts such as tooling, fixing or maintaining attempted to keep together the world predisposed to retrogress, float to chaos, disappear, and die.
The artist, according to Emre Baykal, curator of the exhibition, is exploring the tense equilibrium between order and chaos, between life and death, probing the attempt by humankind to keep together the world it inhabits, a world which is always threatening to break up and vanish, and strives to understand what that production (in varied forms) means in the context of human nature, developed in the course of this attempts.
The exhibition consists of six video works named as Brain Surgeon, Today, Household Goods Factory, Jean Factory, Dance Company and Ruins in Reverse and a wall installation, named Time Notes, which has been keeping the formation record of artistic creation process of the artist since 2005, by jotted and hand-written time-codes. A single reading is applicable to the every single piece of the works which has different rhythms where the strong visual and conceptual relationship between these pieces due to rhythmic similarity structured by the artist also enables a stratified reading of the whole context. Every single work can be negated as inter-independence to be affirmed concomitantly in a higher level where some of them are flowing in harmony and the others are conflicting each other, in a candid, unconcealed and reasonable manner.
The video, named “Today” is a reproduction of the same named old work of the artist created in 2005 due to collaging the enriched and enlarged production ways. When it was displayed in Istanbul Pedestrian Exhibitions 2, the work had been kept the everyday visual record of Karakoy and Tunel, calling the attention to the production personally unnoticeable but continuously ongoing in public sphere due to videos 1 to 3 minutes long imaging micro-production in variable rhythm and configuration. The new version which is also a starting point of this series, besides, examines the humanity’s impulse to convert, maintain and construct of own and nature and the meaning of this impulse in human nature.
Dance Company, showed in Lille before, is being laid out in Turkey in first, which is displaying the scenes taken in Zeynep Tanbay Dance Project’s rehearsals and performances in 2009. Furthermore, Ruins in Reverse while not part of this series, is being laid out at this exhibition in first, looms large as a work which shows the constant alternation between order and chaos, being and nothingness, life and death.
The Artist, for his works went into a number of places, where carry out production/repair/creation; a surgery, steel mill, slaughterhouse, design studio, watch repair shop in Dolmabahce Palace, textile mill or household goods factory to examine the efficiency, value and capacity of humankind to convert and produce, through different techniques and materials of production.
The Artist is performing Works focusing on the ways that individuals or groups tried to create order and meaning in their lives and for their environment with a referral to the importance of humankind’ s activities or exertions and to the significance of economics, production and social organizations, by considering the common activities of production abstractly in a pictorial matter. He is also enables a reading of production through conversion of oppositions and discrepancies of existing but principally invisible circumstances of daily life, while examining the borders of humanity, relationship structured between human and nature in terms of conversion and ascendance, control positioned as learned, monotonous, and unexceptional.
The viewer questioning the humans’ nature and the limits of power, will be like Nietzsche when experiencing the individuals’ insignificance of negation and will to power in total value, or will accompany to Camus in the fight with death devoted to reach the rule and meaning of life as a human has seen the real substance and the clues of creation in examination of common reasons of life.
After this successful exhibition in Galatasaray, as a viewer, we will able to understand the expressing language and the world mentioned by the artist with the book that will be published by Yapi Kredi Publishing in February and will contain the texts of the curator Emre Baykal and the Assistant Professor Suna Ertugrul from Bogazici University written about the artist’s Works, until exploring the frontiers of humans’ production language ruling the object, in a different exhibition displaying the missing or new created Works of this series.
Alper Karabatak
25 January 2010
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