12/4/2013
Inci Furni
Rampa, Istanbul
Same Thing Everyday. Furni, with this exhibition, highlights that the constructedness in painting is both a quotidian obsession and a projection of internal stories and emotions.
Rampa hosts İnci Furni’s exhibition titled “Same Thing
Everyday” April 13–May 18, 2013. In her first exhibition
with the gallery, Furni repeats objects, ordinary, mundane
situations to make permeable the boundaries of the visual
world she has constructed.
The intimacy that is felt in Furni’s single bed and
match series, included in this exhibition, is the one-on-one
relationship that the artist has with the subject matter,
employing these objects to reflect a diaristic approach. The
artist equates the bed—a personal, private object—with the
match, something that we don’t think about that much, that
we identify as “trash”; this approach points to these two
“things” becoming tools as depicted by the artist. In other
words, as the bed and the match are represented from a
similar perspective, these objects become a part of Furni’s
fiction; nothing more nothing less is possible.
The sense of “rhythm” that dominates both series
underlines a continuity that is beyond the realm of the
exhibition, exposing the artist’s taking out a slice from
her practice to put on a display. As we know that there
is a before and an after to the works, the production
process becomes accessible for the viewers with the
acknowledgment that not “everything” is at the exhibition
space, creating an unavoidable curiosity or even a tense
sense of the unknown.
The stories that begin on paper as drawings stand on
their own on the canvases, abstracted. In other words,
the affinity in Furni’s match and bed diaries, the obsessive
relationship with material has a tumultuous movement,
while her canvases are made independent as they move
these minute stories to a fictional world. Perhaps each one of
the canvases can be related to the drawings; their integrity
is a reflection, an anchoring of the unity of Furni’s visual and
intellectual world, pointing out that Furni transforms the
daily without separating herself from it. This togetherness
shows that the artist does not distinguish between herself
and the thing that is the same everyday; on the contrary, she
works with the tension right under the surface of that lack of
difference.
Furni, with this exhibition, highlights that the
constructedness in painting is both a quotidian obsession
and a projection of internal stories and emotions.
İnci Furni (1976) was born in Bursa, Turkey. She
received her bachelor degree in painting from Mimar
Sinan Fine Arts University. Her solo exhibitions
are “The Table That Lost Itself”, Artsümer Gallery,
Istanbul (2011), “Parrots Can’t Talk”, Krinzinger
Projekt, Vienna (2010), “I Don’t Believe in Personal
Isolation, I Believe in Building!”, Masa Project,
Istanbul (2009) and “Spirit”, Apartment Project,
Istanbul (2007). Furni also participated in several
group exhibitions within Turkey and abroad including
“Tactics of Invisibility”, a collaboration with Hafriyat
Group, ARTER, Istanbul (2011), TBA Gallery, Vienna
(2010) and TANAS, Berlin (2010); “Turbo Works”,
Gallery Kullukcu, Munich (2011); “Dream and Reality”,
Istanbul Modern, Istanbul (2011); “Second Exhibition”,
a collaboration with Hafriyat Group, ARTER, Istanbul
(2010); “When Ideas Become Crimes”, Depo, Istanbul
(2010); International Istanbul Biennial (2007 (a
collaboration with Hafriyat Group) and 2009);
“Made in Turkey”, Atelier Frankfurt, Frankfurt (2008),
“Sobe!”, Bilsar Building, Istanbul (2007) and “12
September”, Tütün Deposu, Istanbul (2006).
İnci Furni lives and works in Istanbul, Turkey.
Press contact:
Mr. Üstüngel İnanç T +90 212 327 0800 / uinanc@rampaistanbul.com
Rampa Istanbul
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