IN THE PRESS
Istanbul Inn London: Discover Turkey in a New Cultural Exhibition
I'm here to explore the exceptional works of Turkish dancer and artist Fırat Neziroğlu.
Besides his remarkable talent as a weaver, what truly deserves praise about his work is his defiance against societal gender norms and judgments. In all of his works, he portrays numerous scenes rooted in the joy of life.
However, he communicates them all through the medium of weaving, a role traditionally attributed to women in the Middle East.
Neziroğlu, educated as a dancer and also a skilled weaver, sends a message to the West about Turkey's increasingly liberal mindset amid its conservative neighbors."
Paniz Gederi,
ArtLyst / Art Monaco
Fırat Neziroğlu portrays a very disrespectful image of a child urinating in his artwork 'Peeing Fırat.'
Although the handwoven carpet may seem modest, it becomes silent and challenging in the sterile gallery spaces. While criticizing the elitist art symbolized by the white cube, he blurs the boundaries between life/art and inside/outside dualities.
Simone Vidmar, AKBANK, Contemporary Artist
Borders - Orbits
Not the idea of representation being a stable structure, but the idea of evolution forms the content of present timr. Falling into disgrace, image couses the idolization value of the object with its exhbitive (observative) value, and alienates the look form from the appeal of image. Living forms materializing by emanating from the presentation gives a real body and a real life to persons, things and events trough their value of use. These forms having a breath a second life blown by artist into them, are reintroduced into the metamorphosis of relational social forms and find a place for these second lives in their own time and setting.
Fırat Neziroglu duplicates and ceremonializes the causalityof a current form, using a weaving technique.
Art work taking part in the exhibition will have new forms by stratifying through the readings of the viewers rather than the things they represent.
Mürteza Fidan,
Melih Güngör,
SIEMENS Art