The Backyard of Childhood
Gurur Birsin
KAIROS
4.-26.10.2024
Opening: 4th Oct. Friday,
18.00-20.00
KAIROS is proud to present Gurur Birsin's second solo exhibition, "The Backyard of Childhood."
"The Backyard of Childhood" is the artist's first solo exhibition at KAIROS. It focuses on the traumatic effects on the personality caused by a number of witnesses about life during the transition from childhood to adulthood. The artist has chosen to express the situation of determining the personality through data such as competition, compassion, conflict, and the understanding of upbringing between family members. They have done so without showing the human figure directly, with objects, spaces, and animal figures that symbolise them. This allows them to create a more diverse and rich language by moving away from their ongoing practice. The exhibition offers viewers the chance to delve deeper into the artist's inner world and reconnect with themselves. It is open from Tuesday to Saturday, 4-26 October 2024, between 12:00-19:00.
‘I swear I saw; the god called life was a poisonous tarantula. That endless web, entangling and entwining everything, landed slowly like a dusty sediment on the ancient garden of the self, I saw. Looking into myself, I was still tiny, the seven layers of earth and seven layers of sky trembled with a roar, then a forlorn rain poured down, I passed through a ruined, arched gate dripping with rust, and I saw. It was night in the garden, the night was always in the garden, petals hissed, there were half-dead, half-alive birds drinking blood-red venom on the round stigmas of flowers, I saw the laments they sparked. There, neither fire was fire, nor song was song, all were in the curlings of the hungry mind, in the beats of the thirsty heart, both existed and didn't, and everything was in limbo, I saw.’
Özge Lena
