Zilberman announces Sena Başöz’s solo exhibition titled Inevitable Choreography. Inevitable Choreography brings together works spanning from Sena Başöz's earlier years and her more recent works, establishing a compelling dialogue between objects that have traversed her life.
Inevitable Choreography focuses on cycles and movement of objects from Sena Başöz’s personal archive which brings into mind the movement of the body around these objects across space and time. The artist delves into the relationship between the body, object and time by exploring the movement and the transient perception of the object.
Başöz predominantly works on seeking ways of interacting with what is considered out of reach and experimentally regenerating what is considered lost. In her practice, the artist delves into the body as an archive and movement as a tool to regenerate. She begins questioning movement as a tool for regeneration starting with her performance piece Slalom (2022), which investigates how a moving body can activate an institutional archive. Since then, the artist realized that, just like the body, objects also move and this mutual movement could be perceived as a choreography on the concept of impermanence.
An unexpected reunion with a portrait, discarded in the trash two decades ago, compelled Başöz to reflect on the journey of an object. G., After a Long Stroll (2023), explores the temporal journey of an object separate from the intention of its creator. Departing from personal stories, Başöz explores the notion objét trouvé, that of between the found and the lost, between an active research and a passive alertness, where the experience of objet trouvé happens to be, in that same interstice of time and space where the coincidence resides.
Discovering an object often entails its initial loss. Such is the narrative woven into the new work titled The Last Time I Saw the Anchor that Sunk into the Sea and The Anchor that Came out of the Sea After Two Months (2023)”. This artwork encapsulates the moments surrounding the detachment of an anchor from the boat that the artist was on. Consequently, the anchor, now retrieved, inadvertently lost but subsequently recovered, is presented alongside the drawing, offering a tangible connection to the past, a relic to cling to.
More information on the event can be found here.