Curator:
Şener Özmen, Zehra Şonya, Nicholas Panayi
Artists:
Endam Acar, Adi Atassi, Mahmut Celayir, Yiannos Economou, Özgül Ezgin, Berat Işık, Osman A. Keten, Ateş Kozal, Nicholas Panayi, Zehra Şonya, Cengiz Tekin, Fotis Theodoropoulos, Türegün Tunç
Speakers:
Şener Özmen, Zehra Şonya
Place:
Diyarbakır Art Center
Organized by Diyarbakır Arts Center in cooperation with European-Mediterranean Art Association (EMAA), the ‘Zero Visibility Range’ exhibition was on show at Diyarbakır Arts Center May 3-27, 2008. The exhibition brought contemporary artists living in Diyarbakır, Nicosia and Cyprus together in Diyarbakır, which is turning into one of the most important production and circulation centers of contemporary art in the international arena. The exhibition had the goal to develop a critical approach to the mythologies of success and the dualities, such as successful artist and unsuccessful artist, produced by the global cultural industries, through centering the exhibition on the failure of existence, conceptualized by Karl Theodor Jaspers as the ‘border-situation’ (Grenzsituation). The exhibition problematized the artist’s distraction with the smoke screen that he thought he saw, and the disappearance of the aura, based on the idea that the exhibition reduces the visibility range between the artist and the work, the work and the viewer, and the viewer and the information. Following the opening, the curators of the ‘Zero Visibility Range’ exhibition, Şener Özmen and Zehra Şonya, held a public conversation on the issues treated by the artists.
