https://www.arslansukan.com/news daily 0.75 2018-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1423868362388-89C03D7HYQGC1CJFQ6DY/Untitled+5.jpg News https://www.arslansukan.com/news/2018/5/14/public-on-paper-arslan-sukan-at-oktemaykut-istanbul monthly 0.5 2019-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1526289491067-MN2YAJV9DA9ZKDUNSX41/eUntitled+1+%28NY%29%2C+2018.jpg News OktemAykut is pleased to present Arslan Sukan’s first solo show at the new Istanbul gallery. Sukan, known for his conceptual photographs will be showing thirty-two works from Sukan’s new series of “paintings” based on public and private sphere. In his recent work, Sukan has set out to identify alternative sites of public display and common space within the banal recesses of the everyday world. Collecting and adopting the sketch pads and papers that customers use for testing markers, pens and other drawing tools at art supply stores through years, from different cities around the world, Sukan considers how these test sheets serve as a vehicle for both intimate and exhibitionist performance as well as original social documents. In the improvised layers of sketches, doodles and drawings that fill the pages, Sukan sees the documents of a ritual that approximates the practices of graffiti art but makes no allowance for participation in a common culture. Unlike palimpsest or open-sourced editing platforms where history can be scraped clean and updated, the sketch pages collapse past and present straddling the line between private notation and public expression. Treating the inscribed pages of these test pads as found objects, Sukan, scans and enlarges the sheets he collects and reproduces them at their expanded scale with an inkjet printer. For Sukan, these marks, are visible, yet invisible and their anonymity makes it difficult to locate the authorship and creative act. Sukan’s work questions the role of the artist in relation to a public sphere that often exists as a collection of the individual voices rather than a shared form of experience. His transformation of these sketch-filled pages suggests that while the artist offers another voice, it is one capable of giving form to that which litters the surface of the things. https://www.arslansukan.com/news/2016/11/28/yyc4oyovfl353u21ovv3syjoo0ycwb monthly 0.5 2016-11-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1480362340145-GT6WNEOASZJDH1RECRJ5/image-asset.jpeg News https://www.arslansukan.com/news/2015/2/14/five-eleven-while-you-are-surfing-arslan-sukan-curated-by-kathy-battista monthly 0.5 2015-04-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1429545752043-0Q1AIPFYW4T0H7ZIUQCP/image-asset.jpeg News https://www.arslansukan.com/news/2013/9/11inthevisible-galerist-istanbul monthly 0.5 2015-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1396902105695-0J1T72KJXEJ3HBXZIP0S/untitled+5+C-print+on+masonite170x255cm+2013.jpg News - INtheVISIBLE, Galerist, Istanbul 'INtheVISIBLE' Sep 11 – Oct 12, 2013 It is an attempt to visualize the invisible things in our life. The idea is not just simply shifting the visual field from context to content but also bringing them side by side like a physical and mental image inside each other at the same time.’ Arslan Sükan Galerist is pleased to present Arslan Sukan’s second solo exhibition ‘INtheVISIBLE’ : opening on the 11th of September, 2013 at Galerist, Istanbul. Sukan’s new photographic work explores the conventions of the modern white cube as both an architectural context and as a content subject in and of itself. By addressing the notions of spatial memory, presentation and representation, this exhibition enhances the confrontation between visibility and invisibility in social and phenomenological terms. Arslan Sukan appropriates images from the internet of ‘installation shots’, white cube spaces within museums, galleries and art institutions around the world. His first step is returning them to their original state by digitally removing the artworks inside. He then manipulates the remaining image, 'the original condition of the gallery', by digitally painting some of the parts, like walls, ceilings or floors. Sukan's layered approach embraces the disputed characteristics of the white cube and 'as a sacred space undisturbed by time'; at the same time it expands the potential of artistic intervention in the gallery by transforming the space itself on a plane surface. The artist’s preconceived images of uninterrupted spaces, composed of heightened geometrical shapes, touch base with the minimalist aesthetic and its emphasis on the viewer’s perception, while the flatness of the picture calls to mind the infinite possibilities in abstract paintings. By means of deconstruction, intervention and reconstruction of the white cube’s image, Sukan brings complicity between opposites and creates a dualism between presentation and representation, visibility and invisibility, abstraction and concrete concepts. The result is an entirely new space, architecture of past and future, with a continuously shifting viewpoint. Sukan proposes a phenomenal situation, challenging the viewer on the realism of the photograph and the memory of the space, while also opening up the horizons of the viewer’s perception and interpretation of the exhibition's/ their own immediate setting. Some of the works of the ‘INtheVISIBLE’ series will continue to be displayed at the Museum Haus Konstruktiv (Zürich), with a complete series to be exhibited for the first time at Galerist. ‘Arslan Sukan orchestrates a new proto-space, so to speak, in which (conceptually speaking) everything has already been shown and everything will be shown in the future. 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It is a place with walls covered in pictures, with the wall itself having no intrinsic aesthetic. However nowadays, being a participator rather than a passive support for the art, the wall has become the locus of various ideologies, rich with a substance that it subtly donates to the art. In his latest body of works, Turkish artist Arslan Sukan appropriates images of installation shots from the Internet, exhibition spaces within museums, galleries and art institutions around the world, changing these spaces by means of digital image processing. First he eliminates all exhibited works, emptying the rooms, so to speak. He then changes the walls, the ceiling, the floor while leaving some elements of the room exactly as they were. In some images, he chooses to make only very minimal interventions, only changing the color of one wall, for example. In other images, however, Sükan intervenes significantly, combining different views of various architectural elements and thus almost completely rebuilding the architecture of the room. In the process, he develops three different images from each photograph: the wide angle, providing an overview of almost the entire room; the medium angle, drawing attention to a particular corner, and the close-up, only showing very specific details. On the basis of this system, in her essay on Sükan’s work displayed at Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich, curator Dorothea Strauss states that the artist manages ‘to get his photographs to come across almost like a series of investigations – investigating the possibility of a present absence.’ The artist further enhances this impression by choosing very differently sized formats; small and large image formats come together to create an ‘installational’ overall impression. Arslan’s work calls into question the parameters of the exhibition space (both material and immaterial), challenging its guiding logic and the power it exerts on the artist or artwork. This greatly exemplifies the productive affinity between typological analysis and the built environment, satiated as it is with cultural signifiers and the trappings of social norms, power, and control that go into its construction and use. By appropriating images of gallery spaces around found on the internet and recontextualizing them- after digital manipulation – on to gallery walls, he raises questions of authorship, image meaning, visibility and invisibility in social and phenomenological terms and a hierarchical relationship between the viewer and the viewed surface. Considering Arslan Sükan’s background in architecture and his stated interest in the intellectual dimension of architecture and man-made structures, one could say that the absence of objects, in this case, first objectified the architectural space and design details, and then shifted the viewers’ attention to their own preconceptions of what an exhbition should look like. By emptying out the exhibition space, Sükan reveals its architecture’s gaze turns in on itself with the anticipation of internal collapse. There is a place between permanence and temporality inherent in architecture; once built, it is always in the process of deterioration until its ultimate collapse, leaving space for new building. As Dorothea Strauss puts it, Sükan ‘orchestrates a new proto-space, so to speak, in which (conceptually speaking) everything has already been shown and everything will be shown in the future. Past and future combine to form a visible invisibility.’ The artist’s manipulated images sensitize the audience to the constructed nature of the exhibition space, which produces cultural signifiers in the form of artworks, claiming to form our identity, and invite a re-examination of conventional signifiers of beauty. Presenting such empty space to the viewer is a concept first adapted by Yves Klein in his emblematic exhibition ‘Le Vide’ at the Iris Clert gallery in 1958. This event marked a crucial stage in the history of modern art, transforming the empty space into an exhibited object, which would be radically repeated and remade in other contexts. Such gestures would go on to instigate a questioning of the historical, institutional, and social framework of the ‘white cube’, challenging its claim to neutrality. As such, Arslan Sükan’s ‘empty spaces are, in fact, not truly empty. By digitally painting walls of such seemingly empty spaces, laying bare their impact on the artworks that they are exhibiting. While it seems as though he is creating a process of removal, what these techniques create is a layering of (digital) paint, which he states demonstrates ‘how a space shapes… the artwork… showing (visualizing) invisible things in our life.’ This fact can only be identified at closer inspection or through the description of the work, questioning and challenging the perception of the viewer, and thus adding to the discourse about the reality of the image. In his early work, in a series of photographs titled ‘While you are sleeping’ Sükan already stated experimenting with similar concepts of the unknown, bringing in another layer to his work: the Uncanny. The Freudian Uncanny is the unfamiliar familiar, the conventional made suspect. But the Uncanny is not simply an experience of strangeness or alienation. It can take the form of something familiar unexpectedly arising in a strange and unfamiliar context or vice versa. In such a way, the compositions in Sükan’s photographs are metamorphosed and warped into spaces of uncannies, where perspective and dimensions are perverted to make things that once may have seemed natural, now unfamiliar, with the viewer becoming uncertain of their place in concrete reality. By digitally rendering his photographs, Sükan creates artificial constructions of reality, which can be seen as a comment on the shifting technological realities and perspectives of contemporary society. In ‘Now here to now here’, a multitude of boats are plying the sea by night, without a specific direction and in the light of a double moon. In this series of photographs, the element of time seems to be removed. By digitally manipulating his ‘seascapes’ he creates uncertainty in the viewer, questioning the idea of photography as a medium to capture moments in time. This uncertainty and confusion is heightened by his play with dimensions, perspective and distance, confusing the eye with a great level of darkness, making the world look alien and unrecognizable. In such ways, Arslan explores the meaning of the representation of an image: the dualism that arises between the constructed and existing, perception and realistic representation of the world, space and time. Sükan’s approach in this series of works relates to a statement made by Jean Baudrillard in his work The Evil Demon of Images saying that ‘ the image is interesting not only in its role as reflection, mirror, representation of, or counterpart to, the real, but also when it begins to contaminate reality and to model it, when it only conforms to reality the better to distort it, or better still: when it appropriates reality for its own ends, when it anticipates it to the point that the real no longer has time to be produced as such.’ Sükan’s works thus also challenge the value of photography itself, the reliability of its representation of reality, or the image of reality, exploring how photography both documents and manipulates it. He states: ‘ I am very much intertesed in the construction of concepts that try to show the objective reasons in subjective points of life… an unknown situation often stimulates speculation and uncertainty. This is one of the reasons I try to explore the thems of condition, duality, representation, perception and context in general.’ By omitting the human figure from his images he indirectly analyses the patterns of human life and stretches the traces of human impact in his works, leaving them open to viewer’s own personal interpretation. In the creation of his images, he expresses all his own intimate reflections on photography, experiencing first hand the relationship between the chosen objects and the absent subjects. Digitally manipulated photography and the appropriation of images taken from the Internet are both very recent forms of art production in our current age of information and technology. In his essay Postproduction, French writer and curator Nicolas Bourriaud states: “ What we usually call reality is a montage. But is the one we live in the only possible one? From the same material(the everyday), we can produce different versions of reality.” The realm of new media influencing our ‘reality’ continues to be an area where new forms or structures are created. Nevertheless, neutral and transparent photographic or filmic ‘documentation’ is a form of mediation – one of the principal ways in which we codify and construct reality. The artwork is no longer an end point but a simple moment in an infinite chain of contributions. If, as stated in the beginning of this essay, the installation shot is a metaphor for the gallery space, Arslan Sükan’s works – with the little reality left in them – can be seen as a metaphor for the uncertainty of our personal realities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1388267522016-TBD2XA73J8GJLWGQL9KY/e2.jpg Press - Exhibist Magazine | Featured Artist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1388267776179-M4WP8OOGH5Q2VNA4ADMA/e3.jpg Press - Exhibist Magazine | Featured Artist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1388267901623-15P74PU2EQ4W6IFUQ7H0/e4.jpg Press - Exhibist Magazine | Featured Artist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1388267911630-SP8FEI2HRAH3OEWBRIM6/e5.jpg Press - Exhibist Magazine | Featured Artist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1388267928761-YREXT7FKHMJJZ6TQFAU5/e6.jpg Press - Exhibist Magazine | Featured Artist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1388268210864-FDCK78KZRQ9LIJ4GQ857/artunlimited+1.jpg Press - Art Unlimited | Review by Dorothea Strauss http://issuu.com/artunlimited_tr/docs/au_23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1388207966796-NCE0CM64OT55MPNU5I5C/artunlimited-2+copy.jpg Press - Art Unlimited | Review by Dorothea Strauss http://issuu.com/artunlimited_tr/docs/au_23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1387930633813-BRJ9AK8I6FPVXZSQ8JBM/vogue+italia+2.jpg Press - Vogue Italy | News http://www.vogue.it/uomo-vogue/news/2013/09/sukan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1388604315893-LWBTGNV6ROLCQS30LM89/eSanat+D%C3%BCnyam%C4%B1z%2C+Tuba+Parlak+review+2%2C+Nov+2013.jpg Press - Sanat Dunyamiz | Review by Tuba Parlak https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1388603506329-6LPKMRAXPM3U67W1K76Z/1Yap%C4%B1%2C+%27Hangisinden+S%C3%B6z+ediyorum%27+Oct+2013%2C+p.166+%281%29-1.jpg Press - Yapi Magazine | Review https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1388262349349-BY9C7KU6JKJZGX7IL84B/3Yap%C4%B1%2C+%27Hangisinden+S%C3%B6z+ediyorum%27+Oct+2013%2C+p.166+%281%29-3.jpg Press - Yapi Magazine | Review https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1387934769936-WYQMWBTJZTUKGVH3NRE5/anotherblog.jpg Press - Another Art Blog | Featured artist http://anotherartblog.com/?attachment_id=1982   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1388602078925-7KJXVQSHSMV60J093OE0/warhola.jpg Press - Warhola Magazine | Interview http://warholamagazine.com/?page_id=2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1388602563061-SMX2K16E221F0A9GZLG4/eIMG_0516.jpg Press - Art Unlimited | Interview https://static1.squarespace.com/static/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/52ba217ee4b013dbd6fb8c70/55535874e4b0b95423f22f7e/1431525492126/ Press https://static1.squarespace.com/static/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/52ba217ee4b013dbd6fb8c70/55535925e4b054270906d879/1431525669699/ Press https://www.arslansukan.com/publications daily 0.75 2019-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1494338073256-4DCB0WT1NYUD48QGVTLE/IMG_2848.jpg Publications Liman - Harbor Curated by Celenk Bafra & Levent Calikoglu, ISTANBUL MODERN Museum 28.01.2017 - 04.07.2017 'Harbor' exhibition catalog by Istanbul Modern   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1494338073256-4DCB0WT1NYUD48QGVTLE/IMG_2848.jpg Publications Liman - Harbor Curated by Celenk Bafra & Levent Calikoglu, ISTANBUL MODERN Museum 28.01.2017 - 04.07.2017 'Harbor' exhibition catalog by Istanbul Modern   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1388208530150-39DPSB2K21R86EWRDBQN/9788807421341_quarta.jpg.448x698_q100_upscale.jpg Publications The Sea is my Land Curated by Francesco Bonami & Emanuela Mazzonis, MAXXI, Rome, Italy 3.07.2013 - 29.09.2013 Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, Milano (2013) 256 Pages Ammar Abd Rabbo, Yuri Ancarani, Taysir Batniji, Mohamed Bourouissa, Marie Bovo, Aleš Bravnicar, Stéphane Couturier, Fouad Elkoury, Mounir Fatmi, Dor Guez, Adelita Husni-Bey, Mouna Karray, Panos Kokkinias, Irena Lagator Pejovic, David Maljkovic, Mark Mangion, Mladen Miljanovic, Moataz Nasr, Adrian Paci, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Agnès Roux, Arslan Sukan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1387940771546-3PBGC7G16BV9Q905LBME/500hot-spot-istanbul-1.jpg Publications Hot Spot Istanbul, 2013 Published by JRP|Ringier Edited by Christoph Doswald, Dorothea Strauss. Text by Yasemin Bay, Christoph Doswald, Hans Irrek, Beral Madra, Mehtap Ozturk, Burcu Pelvanoglu, Dorothea Strauss, Thomas Wulffen. Hot Spot Istanbul surveys a new generation of Turkish artists, among them Can Altay, Adnan Coker, Nejat Melih Devrim, Burhan Dogançay, Serhat Kiraz, Renée Levi, Ahmet Oktem, Ahmet Orhan, Mübin Orhon, Abdurrahman Oztoprak, Seckin Pirim, Sarkis, Nejat Sati, Arslan Sükan, Erdem Tasdelen and Canan Tolon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1494337764124-UYZ89FCXHF5E8D5W73HG/IMG_2848.jpg Publications https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1497886957720-WYC6P67PXE4BY065YYVY/q2.jpg Publications D'UNE MEDITERRANEE, L'AUTRE 26.11.2016 - 12.02.2017 Exhibition catalog by Hotel des Arts, centre d'art Departement du Var, Toulon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1457377261056-XVSSCQGNLJ66OKRM7YNW/image-asset.jpeg Publications - Modern and Contemporary Approaches to Photography in Turkey by Engin Ozendes, Published by YemYayin 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1388208312776-5DHF7ARLNVK5V4J95T8H/500Unleashed_cover.jpg Publications UNLEASHED: Contemporary art from Turkey, 2010 Published by Thames & Hudson Essays by Ali Akay, Ahu Antmen, Emre Baykal, Irit Rogoff https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1387941362771-U5I1DMWFQDF3RJ20JQ14/nyphScan.jpg Publications NEW YORK PHOTO AWARDS, 2009 Published by Blurb   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1387940463416-6GC5G8G826CNK5UTV5M9/Scan+1E500.jpg Publications INtheVISIBLE, 2013 Published by Galerist Text by Dorothea Strauss https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1429894936496-VY1N3J7O40PZAYV8R0W1/image-asset.jpeg Publications While you are surfing, 2015 Published by Istanbul '74 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1497887274246-FI33CUJGA9FHADYV5H3R/q1.jpg Publications 'Prelude' Leica Gallery Istanbul 08.06.2017 - 05.08.2017 'Prelude' exhibition catalog by Leica Gallery Istanbul https://www.arslansukan.com/while-you-r-sleeping-2011 daily 1.0 2019-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551980116260-WHAE4H2FO0F1Q2ICYOQN/now-here%2Bto%2Bnow-here%2B150x187.5cm%2B2009.jpg While you r sleeping, 2011 Now-here to now-here, 2009, C-print in artists' frame, 150 x 188 cm From the series of ‘While you are sleeping’ In his seascape works, Sukan manipulates his imagery connected to the constant tensions between the mental grasp of the specificity and representation. He starts taking his pictures above sea level and contextualizes the scenes and brings out a new kind of perception. Now here to now here (2009), an image taken in Bosphorus, Istanbul, is a great example for duality of time and space. It evokes infinity, by being nostalgic and futuristic at the same time. At first glance, the viewer may not be suspicious of the situation but in close inspection, questions arise; if this is a night time shot, how come the ships in motion looks so sharp as if they are from a frozen movie still. The other side of duality comes out when we look at the full moon in the sky. The moon is in transit and clearly gives a hint that that the world or in this case another planet turns in its own axis. He creates an image that represents the duality of time, space in an undefined space. The work also creates a transformation of the natural world into an almost hallucinatory alternate reality. By reversing the color spectrum in (Now here to now here, Disappearance, Destiny) the subjects becomes simultaneously otherworldly and wholly familiar at the same time. Red blast (2009), the viewer is again left to their own interpretation. A blast in the middle of the sea and red clouds of smoke surrounding the whole scene evokes a post-apocalyptic scene. Can this be a scene of a war, a celebration or a navy practice? Beyond simply demonstrating the unreliability of photography as a documentation medium, Sukan shows us that a picture is never just the sum of its parts. By reconstructing these environments from one portion to another, Sukan raises some of the most elemental questions about how we perceive the world we live. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551980116260-WHAE4H2FO0F1Q2ICYOQN/now-here%2Bto%2Bnow-here%2B150x187.5cm%2B2009.jpg While you r sleeping, 2011 Now-here to now-here, 2009, C-print in artists' frame, 150 x 188 cm From the series of ‘While you are sleeping’ In his seascape works, Sukan manipulates his imagery connected to the constant tensions between the mental grasp of the specificity and representation. He starts taking his pictures above sea level and contextualizes the scenes and brings out a new kind of perception. Now here to now here (2009), an image taken in Bosphorus, Istanbul, is a great example for duality of time and space. It evokes infinity, by being nostalgic and futuristic at the same time. At first glance, the viewer may not be suspicious of the situation but in close inspection, questions arise; if this is a night time shot, how come the ships in motion looks so sharp as if they are from a frozen movie still. The other side of duality comes out when we look at the full moon in the sky. The moon is in transit and clearly gives a hint that that the world or in this case another planet turns in its own axis. He creates an image that represents the duality of time, space in an undefined space. The work also creates a transformation of the natural world into an almost hallucinatory alternate reality. By reversing the color spectrum in (Now here to now here, Disappearance, Destiny) the subjects becomes simultaneously otherworldly and wholly familiar at the same time. Red blast (2009), the viewer is again left to their own interpretation. A blast in the middle of the sea and red clouds of smoke surrounding the whole scene evokes a post-apocalyptic scene. Can this be a scene of a war, a celebration or a navy practice? Beyond simply demonstrating the unreliability of photography as a documentation medium, Sukan shows us that a picture is never just the sum of its parts. By reconstructing these environments from one portion to another, Sukan raises some of the most elemental questions about how we perceive the world we live. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551980057519-XHTMQ4S0DELNO5S6G18L/disappearance%2B105x133.5cm%2B2009.jpg While you r sleeping, 2011 Disappearance, 2009, C-print in artists' frame, 105 x 134 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551980056392-KXWA0BFXRQKXIBIPYTDE/destiny%2B105%2Bx%2B133.5cm%2B2009%2B%281%29.jpg While you r sleeping, 2011 Destiny, 2009, C-print in artists' frame, 105 x 134 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551980172766-CG82TIYKJBNEUXB568MY/visibility%2B105%2Bx%2B133.5cm.jpg While you r sleeping, 2011 Visible, 2009, C-print in artists' frame, 105 x 134 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551979901574-1F32OA8OBD1PPBWVBCDJ/05%2Bout%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bred%2B105%2Bx%2B133%2Bcm%2B.jpg While you r sleeping, 2011 Out of the red, 2009, C-print in artists' frame, 105 x 134 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551980039146-HNV1NGMKHHO9JS29DQW6/artificial%2Bblast%2B120x153%2B2009.jpg While you r sleeping, 2011 Artificial Blast, 2009, C-print in artists' frame, 120 x 150 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551980136602-M5I5J7OZ6K4NWZ92G8OT/red%2Bpause%2B120x153%2B2009.jpg While you r sleeping, 2011 Red pause, 2009, C-print in artists' frame, 120 x 150 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551979822051-EKMDBBBI4KAYRJ9QJXPA/_DSC3114e.jpg While you r sleeping, 2011 'While you are sleeping', Installation view, MAXXI, Rome, 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551980061995-091XUJYSKR109M3T9C5D/DSL-7894.jpg While you r sleeping, 2011 'While you are sleeping', Installation view, Triennale di Milano, 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551980062959-BMGR3DRUXDZ720PDE0FZ/DSL-7916.jpg While you r sleeping, 2011 'While you are sleeping', Installation view, Triennale di Milano, 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551979570918-LUFHSP1JWONPR6M0NS5O/_DSC9449s.jpg While you r sleeping, 2011 'While you are sleeping', Installation view, Hotel Des Arts, Centre D'Art Du Conseil General Du Var, Toulon, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551979830539-JTTZOX4BUTPWAX0Q2HQT/_DSC9451s.jpg While you r sleeping, 2011 'While you are sleeping', Installation view, Hotel Des Arts, Centre D'Art Du Conseil General Du Var, Toulon, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551979832139-SKCUZ53V8UVKEV79S0M1/_DSC9452s.jpg While you r sleeping, 2011 'While you are sleeping', Installation view, Hotel Des Arts, Centre D'Art Du Conseil General Du Var, Toulon, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551980107301-7ZYN4W1YKSVGQKS4UYXB/LiMAN_Panorama6.jpg While you r sleeping, 2011 'While you are sleeping', Installation view, Istanbul Modern Museum, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551979902753-8SB2XX5WIDF6SU3NJ7JF/2009%2Bblack%2Bbox%2B112x139cm.jpg While you r sleeping, 2011 Black box, 2010, C-print in artists' frame, 110 x 138 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551980064664-3SJSN9O63M0FCSJ332GS/ee_DSC2973.jpg While you r sleeping, 2011 'Hot Spot Istanbul', Installation view, Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, 2013 Black box, 2010, C-print in artists's frame, 110 x 138 cm https://www.arslansukan.com/inthevisible-2013 daily 0.75 2019-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551981591359-B64ZDNV82DI6YYLKCODZ/i1.jpg IntheVisible, 2013 Untitled 1, 2013, Inkjet print mounted on MDF, 100 x 150 cm Sukan’s new photographic work explores the conventions of the modern white cube as both an architectural context and as a content subject in and of itself. By addressing the notions of spatial memory, presentation and representation, this exhibition enhances the confrontation between visibility and invisibility in social and phenomenological terms. Arslan Sukan appropriates images from the internet of ‘installation shots’, white cube spaces within museums, galleries and art institutions around the world. His first step is returning them to their original state by digitally removing the artworks inside. He then manipulates the remaining image, 'the original condition of the gallery', by digitally painting some of the parts, like walls, ceilings or floors. Sukan's layered approach embraces the disputed characteristics of the white cube and 'as a sacred space undisturbed by time'; at the same time it expands the potential of artistic intervention in a gallery by transforming the space itself on a plane surface. The artist’s reconceived images of uninterrupted spaces, composed of heightened geometrical shapes, touch base with the minimalist aesthetic and its emphasis on the viewer’s perception, while the flatness of the picture calls to mind the infinite possibilities in abstract paintings. By means of deconstruction, intervention and reconstruction of the white cube, Sukan brings complicity between opposites and creates dualism between recognition and non-recognition, visibility and invisibility, abstraction and concrete concepts. The result is an entirely new space, an architecture of past and future, with a continuously shifting viewpoint. Sukan proposes a phenomenal situation, challenging the viewer on the realism of the photograph and the memory of a space, while also opening up the horizons of the viewer’s perception and interpretation of the exhibition's/ their own immediate setting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551981591359-B64ZDNV82DI6YYLKCODZ/i1.jpg IntheVisible, 2013 Untitled 1, 2013, Inkjet print mounted on MDF, 100 x 150 cm Sukan’s new photographic work explores the conventions of the modern white cube as both an architectural context and as a content subject in and of itself. By addressing the notions of spatial memory, presentation and representation, this exhibition enhances the confrontation between visibility and invisibility in social and phenomenological terms. Arslan Sukan appropriates images from the internet of ‘installation shots’, white cube spaces within museums, galleries and art institutions around the world. His first step is returning them to their original state by digitally removing the artworks inside. He then manipulates the remaining image, 'the original condition of the gallery', by digitally painting some of the parts, like walls, ceilings or floors. Sukan's layered approach embraces the disputed characteristics of the white cube and 'as a sacred space undisturbed by time'; at the same time it expands the potential of artistic intervention in a gallery by transforming the space itself on a plane surface. The artist’s reconceived images of uninterrupted spaces, composed of heightened geometrical shapes, touch base with the minimalist aesthetic and its emphasis on the viewer’s perception, while the flatness of the picture calls to mind the infinite possibilities in abstract paintings. By means of deconstruction, intervention and reconstruction of the white cube, Sukan brings complicity between opposites and creates dualism between recognition and non-recognition, visibility and invisibility, abstraction and concrete concepts. The result is an entirely new space, an architecture of past and future, with a continuously shifting viewpoint. Sukan proposes a phenomenal situation, challenging the viewer on the realism of the photograph and the memory of a space, while also opening up the horizons of the viewer’s perception and interpretation of the exhibition's/ their own immediate setting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551981594350-PXFKPZJD2A8U9T7S6XUN/untitled%2B5%2BC-print%2Bon%2Bmasonite170x255cm%2B2013.jpg IntheVisible, 2013 Untitled 5, 2013, Inkjet print mounted on MDF, 100 x 150 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551981595869-6ZJ5MA25SFPYE7LW0JLT/Untitled%2B6%2BC-print%2Bon%2Bmasonite%2B170%2Bx%2B255%2Bcm%2B2013.jpg IntheVisible, 2013 Untitled 4, 2013, Inkjet print mounted on MDF, 170 x 250 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551981560209-8P4UYRX0BRKBK3SZAYC3/_DSC3545-2.jpg IntheVisible, 2013 Installation view, 2013 Galerist, istanbul https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551981593118-8Q08DWAITY7T69O2F81O/Untitled%2B1%2BC-print%2Bon%2Bmasonite%2B100%2Bx%2B150%2Bcm%2B2013.jpg IntheVisible, 2013 Untitled 7, 2013, Inkjet print mounted on MDF, 100 x 150 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551981598278-4OGCJPICVP21D5XS4QP2/untitled%2B18%2BC-print%2Bon%2Bmasonite%2B125%2Bcm%2Bx%2B170%2Bcm%2B2013.jpg IntheVisible, 2013 Untitled 9 2013, Inkjet print mounted on MDF, 120 x 180 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551981562331-721O4ULWUXBIUGELABZL/650A_6546515.jpg IntheVisible, 2013 Installation view, 2013 Haus Konstruktiv Museum, Zurich https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551981572613-BOMOOJC74CWYFH46L514/A8%2BDSC_8676.jpg IntheVisible, 2013 Installation view, 2013 Galerist, istanbul https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551981572850-VQN6CAEVQK8S8ZGZDT1I/A8DSC_8649aaaa.jpg IntheVisible, 2013 Installation view, 2013 Galerist, istanbul https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551981583352-2J17MOKZQDVBMNDMW18L/A9%2BDSC_8929.jpg IntheVisible, 2013 Installation view, 2013 Galerist, istanbul https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551981583244-VV73EK8956NS519OQ92Q/Arslan%2BSukan%2B1%2Binstallation%2Bview%2Bat%2BGalerist.jpg IntheVisible, 2013 Installation view, 2013 Galerist, istanbul https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551981631131-7EQJLHVM03YTTGDOCJ8W/Untitled%2B24%2BC-print%2Bon%2Bmasonite%2B80%2Bx%2B120%2Bcm%2B2013.jpg IntheVisible, 2013 Untitled 14, 2013, Inkjet print mounted on MDF, 70 x 100 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551981585908-BSHQHD6KNFRSVU2IGVA9/Arslan%2BSukan%2B2%2Binstallation%2Bview%2Bat%2BGalerist.jpg IntheVisible, 2013 Installation view, 2013 Galerist, istanbul https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551981586246-C3LCV600KOCYY0UMZOTC/Arslan%2BSukan%2B4%2BInstallation%2Bview%2Bat%2BGalerist.jpg IntheVisible, 2013 Installation view, 2013 Galerist, istanbul https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551981550363-C4OXIQ1IACSBC70EVWP6/650.jpg IntheVisible, 2013 https://www.arslansukan.com/surfing-2015 daily 0.75 2019-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551992612145-GHZ7SU18RI2ZYHG39KGG/download.jpeg Surfing, 2015 Untitled 7, 2014, Inkjet print on metallic paper mounted on aluminum, 100 x 150 cm From the series of ‘While you are surfing’ The physical gestures that make up our interactions with touch-screen personal devices are intensely intimate yet abstract signatures of our everyday browsing and messaging patterns. In his While you aresurfing series, Arslan Sukan scans the surfaces of digital devices (iPhones) and manipulates the resulting images to isolate and enhance the fingerprints, dust and cracks which mark the screens. Sukan separates the intimate swipes and taps of screen navigation from any digital content, enlarging the marks to form anonymous and abstract landscapes. Printed on highly reflective metallic paper using an inkjet printer, each piece mirrors the context of its place of display, transforming the physical world and the body of the viewer into virtual content for the image surface. But, unlike fingers on a screen, the reflections leave no physical trace on their object. With While you are surfing, Sukan questions whether our experiences with the digital world, which are mediated through a screen, are any less immediate or complete than our encounters with experiences in physical world. While you are surfing continues Sukan’s engagement with the role of artifice in presenting the real. Through a process that moves from the physical world to digital and back again, his work dissolves distinctions between matter and thought, gesture and image. This ongoing translation of material from one media format into another challenges viewer expectations at every turn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551992612145-GHZ7SU18RI2ZYHG39KGG/download.jpeg Surfing, 2015 Untitled 7, 2014, Inkjet print on metallic paper mounted on aluminum, 100 x 150 cm From the series of ‘While you are surfing’ The physical gestures that make up our interactions with touch-screen personal devices are intensely intimate yet abstract signatures of our everyday browsing and messaging patterns. In his While you aresurfing series, Arslan Sukan scans the surfaces of digital devices (iPhones) and manipulates the resulting images to isolate and enhance the fingerprints, dust and cracks which mark the screens. Sukan separates the intimate swipes and taps of screen navigation from any digital content, enlarging the marks to form anonymous and abstract landscapes. Printed on highly reflective metallic paper using an inkjet printer, each piece mirrors the context of its place of display, transforming the physical world and the body of the viewer into virtual content for the image surface. But, unlike fingers on a screen, the reflections leave no physical trace on their object. With While you are surfing, Sukan questions whether our experiences with the digital world, which are mediated through a screen, are any less immediate or complete than our encounters with experiences in physical world. While you are surfing continues Sukan’s engagement with the role of artifice in presenting the real. Through a process that moves from the physical world to digital and back again, his work dissolves distinctions between matter and thought, gesture and image. This ongoing translation of material from one media format into another challenges viewer expectations at every turn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551992555430-3G4V7OIE5T5EDGEIR8TE/download+%281%29.jpeg Surfing, 2015 Untitled 16, 2014, Inkjet print on metallic paper mounted on aluminum, 100 x 150 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551992570678-1XAKKCBX4Q95UN45GSYQ/download+%282%29.jpeg Surfing, 2015 Untitled 12, 2014, Inkjet print on metallic paper mounted on aluminum, 100 x 150 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551992577747-LQ4C1AK3KEJGSCPJ8E9S/download+%283%29.jpeg Surfing, 2015 Untitled 13, 2014, Inkjet print on metallic paper mounted on aluminum, 100 x 150 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551992582209-D4BH6B7TKM370S6LWLM4/download+%284%29.jpeg Surfing, 2015 Untitled 15, 2014, Inkjet print on metallic paper mounted on aluminum, 100 x 150 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551992589870-OSDF4LQ67DG0GA1PWAYL/download+%285%29.jpeg Surfing, 2015 Untitled 27, 2014, Inkjet print on metallic paper mounted on aluminum, 100 x 150 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551992599959-HM1DD0AREH4HFAITPKCO/download+%286%29.jpeg Surfing, 2015 Untitled 17, 2014, Inkjet print on metallic paper mounted on aluminum, 100 x 150 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551992605382-GTG7D4ZMJMVZR28FZLS2/download+%287%29.jpeg Surfing, 2015 Untitled 18, 2014, Inkjet print on metallic paper mounted on aluminum, 100 x 150 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551992607301-UGU5179ELKUYIK2I4QK7/download+%288%29.jpeg Surfing, 2015 'While you are surfing', Installation view, Five Eleven, New York, NY, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551993199040-ACFZC9XU8MZ2YYG6ENSU/2.jpg Surfing, 2015 'While you are surfing', Installation view, Five Eleven, New York, NY, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551993196494-098NNHN3005HG0C81BZ1/asurf3.jpg Surfing, 2015 'While you are surfing', Installation view, Istanbul 74, Istanbul, TR 2015 https://www.arslansukan.com/public-on-paper-2018 daily 0.75 2019-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551995766459-61NNPZ7FPTMNFAB091FA/eUntitled%2B4%2B%28NY%29%2C%2B2018.jpg Public on paper, 2018 Untitled 2 (NY), 2018 Inkjet print on fine art paper mounted on wood panel, 150cm x 100cm From the series of ‘Public on Paper’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551995766459-61NNPZ7FPTMNFAB091FA/eUntitled%2B4%2B%28NY%29%2C%2B2018.jpg Public on paper, 2018 Untitled 2 (NY), 2018 Inkjet print on fine art paper mounted on wood panel, 150cm x 100cm From the series of ‘Public on Paper’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551995759436-RRVMH5P5B6FZJ4U6SI9O/eUntitled%2B1%2B%28NY%29%2C%2B2018.jpg Public on paper, 2018 Untitled 1 (NY), 2018 Inkjet print on fine art paper mounted on wood panel, 150cm x 100cm In his recent work, Sukan has set out to identify alternative sites of public display and common space within the banal recesses of the everyday world. Collecting and adopting the sketch pads and papers that customers use for testing markers, pens and other drawing tools at art supply stores through years, from different cities around the world, Sukan considers how these test sheets serve as a vehicle for both intimate and exhibitionist performance as well as original social documents. In the improvised layers of sketches, doodles and drawings that fill the pages, Sukan sees the documents of a ritual that approximates the practices of graffiti art but makes no allowance for participation in a common culture. Unlike palimpsest or open-sourced editing platforms where history can be scraped clean and updated, the sketch pages collapse past and present straddling the line between private notation and public expression. Treating the inscribed pages of these test pads as found objects, Sukan, scans and enlarges the sheets he collects and reproduces them at their expanded scale with an inkjet printer. For Sukan, these marks, are visible, yet invisible and their anonymity makes it difficult to locate the authorship and creative act. Sukan’s work questions the role of the artist in relation to a public sphere that often exists as a collection of the individual voices rather than a shared form of experience. His transformation of these sketch-filled pages suggests that while the artist offers another voice, it is one capable of giving form to that which litters the surface of the things. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551995781877-EUX6KLM37X6NCD7PFD3U/eUntitled%2B13%2B%28Paris%29%2C%2B2018.jpg Public on paper, 2018 Untitled 3 (Paris), 2018 Inkjet print on fine art paper mounted on wood panel, 150cm x 100cm From the series of ‘Public on Paper’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551995760879-O27Q0Y554W7FMQD6I90M/eUntitled%2B2%2B%28NY%29%2C%2B2018.jpg Public on paper, 2018 Untitled 5 (NY), 2018 Inkjet print on fine art paper mounted on wood panel, 150cm x 100cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551995767757-D2W98EZ89HF1PJEZ84YV/eUntitled%2B3%2B%28NY%29%2C%2B2018.jpg Public on paper, 2018 Untitled 6 (NY), 2018 Inkjet print on fine art paper mounted on wood panel, 150cm x 100cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551995772415-FB4JVEER1KV4MQGYHFNK/eUntitled%2B6%2B%28Miami%29%2C%2B2018.jpg Public on paper, 2018 Untitled 7 (NY), 2018 Inkjet print on fine art paper mounted on wood panel, 150cm x 100cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551995773781-0FS7OZ26A8IWYQCHKTSH/eUntitled%2B7%2B%28Miami%29%2C%2B2018.jpg Public on paper, 2018 Untitled 8 (NY), 2018 Inkjet print on fine art paper mounted on wood panel, 150cm x 100cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551995776645-672P9LCYF6ZGSFF2F4WF/eUntitled%2B11%2B%28NY%29%2C%2B2018.jpg Public on paper, 2018 Untitled 9 (NY), 2018 Inkjet print on fine art paper mounted on wood panel, 150cm x 100cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551995781585-CSG7SGA1NBO180FDPMD0/eUntitled%2B12%2B%28NY%29%2C%2B2018.jpg Public on paper, 2018 Untitled 10 (NY), 2018 Inkjet print on fine art paper mounted on wood panel, 150cm x 100cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551995787666-XFUUVH2QCNW4TUUWFEDN/eUntitled%2B14%2B%28NY%29%2C%2B2018.jpg Public on paper, 2018 Untitled 11 (NY), 2018 Inkjet print on fine art paper mounted on wood panel, 150cm x 100cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551995787318-I6NE4UK6LK5BMXXUVQ9W/eUntitled%2B15%2B%28Istanbul%29%2C%2B2018.jpg Public on paper, 2018 Untitled 12 (Istanbul), 2018 Inkjet print on fine art paper mounted on wood panel, 150cm x 100cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551995794202-DNPTAFOG3H9KYPMV6MFN/eUntitled%2B16%2B%28Miami%29%2C%2B2018.jpg Public on paper, 2018 Untitled 13 (NY), 2018 Inkjet print on fine art paper mounted on wood panel, 150cm x 100cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551995794435-40BA6YGM3HLT73FAUYV9/eUntitled%2B17%2B%28NY%29%2C%2B2018.jpg Public on paper, 2018 Untitled 14 (Miami), 2018 Inkjet print on fine art paper mounted on wood panel, 150cm x 100cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551995799336-RHXPHYBNOV2CR7BV6HUQ/eUntitled%2B22%2B%28NY%29%2C%2B2018.jpg Public on paper, 2018 Untitled 15 (Miami), 2018 Inkjet print on fine art paper mounted on wood panel, 150cm x 100cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551995800214-7BH15BUUBVRN2T6B186Z/eUntitled%2B26%2B%28NY%29%2C%2B2018.jpg Public on paper, 2018 Untitled 16 (NY), 2018 Inkjet print on fine art paper mounted on wood panel, 150cm x 100cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551995803959-NDIVUA8LYCDIZVI02WET/eUntitled%2B28%2B%28NY%29%2C%2B2018.jpg Public on paper, 2018 Untitled 17 ( NY), 2018 Inkjet print on fine art paper mounted on wood panel, 150cm x 100cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551995804837-1QISETBITMRM0GVK8PLV/eUntitled%2B29%2B%28Paris%29%2C%2B2018.jpg Public on paper, 2018 Untitled 18 (Paris), 2018 Inkjet print on fine art paper mounted on wood panel, 150cm x 100cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551995843381-4JF62M3LS7SH400JOAE6/q1.jpg Public on paper, 2018 'Public on Paper', Installation view, OktemAykut, Istanbul, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551995843743-PEJ78MK9OALY51PJCMKM/q2.jpg Public on paper, 2018 'Public on Paper', Installation view, OktemAykut, Istanbul, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551995846702-G8ARIA5O9XHL1W0PI1AX/q3.jpg Public on paper, 2018 'Public on Paper', Installation view, OktemAykut, Istanbul, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551995849584-UOPOM4I9PW644HII3CTW/q4.jpg Public on paper, 2018 'Public on Paper', Installation view, OktemAykut, Istanbul, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551995852969-8LQZKTL9PLOPRMB7MDTN/q5.jpg Public on paper, 2018 'Public on Paper', Installation view, OktemAykut, Istanbul, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52ba0deae4b0c55f2817a380/1551995854797-5T1XZI4SSN4OM9G3B2K1/q6.jpg Public on paper, 2018 'Public on Paper', Installation view, OktemAykut, Istanbul, 2018 https://www.arslansukan.com/disthisappearance-2024 daily 0.75 2024-10-16 https://www.arslansukan.com/about daily 0.75 2017-05-09 https://www.arslansukan.com/contact daily 0.75 2017-05-18