Özlem Altın's "Muscle Memory (body in time)" utilizes a vibrant orange palette interspersed with stark black and white photographs, creating a dynamic contrast. The composition includes disembodied heads, hands, and objects, arranged in a collage style that evokes a sense of fragmented memory or identity. The piece combines photographic techniques with graphic elements, emphasizing a surreal, introspective narrative. Altın explores the concept of memory and the human body's role within it, reflecting on how experiences are stored and recalled over time. ...
T H E P I L L was founded in 2016 by Suela J. Cennet in the historic peninsula of Istanbul, to operate as a global platform and mobile vessel for contemporary art, supporting artists through a dynamic of cosmopolitanism beyond the dialectics of center and periphery. Initially envisioned by its founder as a space for an aesthetic of friendship, the gallery's programming is strongly inspired by the history and ideas of utopia and dystopia in modernism, with a particular focus on displacement, diaspora, feminisms, and queer aesthetics as reflected in contemporary artistic practices. ...
