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SANATORIUM presents Kerem Ozan Bayraktar’s solo exhibition Check Valve as the inaugural show of its new venue in Karaköy. The exhibition will be on view from May 23 to July 12, 2025.
Works spanning three floors unfold within a construction atmosphere shaped by an unfinished fountain and scattered confetti. The exhibition engages with expressive actions such as performing, rising from the ground, launching into the air, and exploding, each approached with different durations, speeds, and intensities. Bayraktar interprets these gestures as repeated vertical impulses that signify productivity and domination, framing them as power performances within hierarchical systems that are not specific to art but operate through self-elevating structures.
The artist examines the reproduction of power within technological systems by focusing on technical tools that generate, regulate, obscure, or articulate vectorial movements. Within this framework, he explores automation processes...More
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SANATORIUM presents Kerem Ozan Bayraktar’s solo exhibition Check Valve as the inaugural show of its new venue in Karaköy. The exhibition will be on view from May 23 to July 12, 2025.
Works spanning three floors unfold within a construction atmosphere shaped by an unfinished fountain and scattered confetti. The exhibition engages with expressive actions such as performing, rising from the ground, launching into the air, and exploding, each approached with different durations, speeds, and intensities. Bayraktar interprets these gestures as repeated vertical impulses that signify productivity and domination, framing them as power performances within hierarchical systems that are not specific to art but operate through self-elevating structures.
The artist examines the reproduction of power within technological systems by focusing on technical tools that generate, regulate, obscure, or articulate vectorial movements. Within this framework, he explores automation processes...More