deniz aktaş
deniz aktaş
The Possibility of a Full Stop Becoming a Comma
Feb 25 – Mar 21, 2025
Deniz Aktaş’s third solo exhibition at .artSümer, “The Possibility of a Full Stop Becoming a Comma”, evaluates the thin line between the unknown and its continuum by choosing transformation over extinction and possibility over certainty.
What are the chances that a full stop, which, on its face, connotes absolute certainty, carries with it endless possibilities? Can the thing which appears to be an ending also be part of a process? Could we imagine this continuum through the symbol of a comma?
This exhibition by Deniz Aktaş greets its viewers with bushes, puddles of water, scattered leaves, thistles, and “wild, odd, and unknown plants” grown in remote and uncanny places in nature.
In “The Possibility of a Full Stop Becoming a Comma”, the author Mehmet Mahsum Oral attempts to listen to the plants he defines as “othered, unwanted, disharmonious” and excluded from human-made gardens.
MONOLOGUES
I remain neither on a collar, nor a table.
I know no ceremony.
The vase is my step mother, and she lives elsewhere.
I have never drunk water from a pitcher.
Some of us enter the rose garden secretly at night
And the gardener thinks the rose fell victim to an evil eye.
As if we are cold sores on the face of beauty.
Translated by: Ceyhun Fırat
The Possibility of a Full Stop Becoming a Comma
Feb 25 – Mar 21, 2025
Deniz Aktaş’s third solo exhibition at .artSümer, “The Possibility of a Full Stop Becoming a Comma”, evaluates the thin line between the unknown and its continuum by choosing transformation over extinction and possibility over certainty.
What are the chances that a full stop, which, on its face, connotes absolute certainty, carries with it endless possibilities? Can the thing which appears to be an ending also be part of a process? Could we imagine this continuum through the symbol of a comma?
This exhibition by Deniz Aktaş greets its viewers with bushes, puddles of water, scattered leaves, thistles, and “wild, odd, and unknown plants” grown in remote and uncanny places in nature.
In “The Possibility of a Full Stop Becoming a Comma”, the author Mehmet Mahsum Oral attempts to listen to the plants he defines as “othered, unwanted, disharmonious” and excluded from human-made gardens.
MONOLOGUES
I remain neither on a collar, nor a table.
I know no ceremony.
The vase is my step mother, and she lives elsewhere.
I have never drunk water from a pitcher.
Some of us enter the rose garden secretly at night
And the gardener thinks the rose fell victim to an evil eye.
As if we are cold sores on the face of beauty.
Translated by: Ceyhun Fırat