The Semi-Aware Subject
Solo exhibition at Galeri NON, Istanbul, 2013
The title of this exhibition is borrowed from a 1981 portraiture guide book titled How to Photograph People, which distinguishes between three types of photographic portraits based on the awareness of the subject being photographed: candid, planned and semi-aware. While the works in the exhibition have no specific reference to photography as a medium, they situate the figure of the emerging artist as a semi-aware subject and perform this subject position with sarcasm and self-mockery, ultimately presenting a dubious self-portrait of the artist.
Relevant links:
Artforum Critics' Picks - review by Kate Sutton
m-est - interview by Mehtap Öztürk
Installation views: The Semi-Aware Subject, Galeri NON, Istanbul, 2013. Photos by Serkan Tunç.
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