Seçil Yaylalı

a fine line

2022, Detroit Stockholm, SE

mixed media 

 

curated by Zeynep Okyay

at Detroit Stockholm - Roslagsgatan 21, 113 55
Opening on 20 October 2022 Friday, at 18.30

Visiting day and hours 
21, 24, 25 Oct 16.00-19.00
22, 23, 26 Oct. 12.00-16.00

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In her exhibition, a fine line, Seçil Yaylalı features a loop between fantasy and reality. The artist invites the audience to play with the toys, which make strange noises in motion. As visitors leave the world of toys behind and move through the exhibition space, they encounter the artist’s unfiltered and sincere reality.

The creation process is fun, but is it pure joy? The exhibition negotiates the fine line between today's reality and the fictional world, between play and life, and between the joy and pain of creation.

The idea for the exhibition comes from a colourful toy shop in a very busy underpass in Istanbul, where the people around it move even more crazily than the toys inside. The artist recreates a part of the store in the gallery space to show the fantastic reality of space and time. She also draws attention to the similarity between the toys' movements and our own during the pandemic, confined within four walls. We are aware of global issues, such as the climate crisis, war, and famine, yet we continue to live our lives at the same pace as if nothing is happening. The audience can go deeper into the artist's fiction and place any of the toys as they wish. Unleashing her inner world, she builds and disassembles her artist self like a jigsaw puzzle, revealing her most sensitive and even dark sides in the exhibition.