FRIEDA Exhibition

Looking at the Stars

A moment passes in the world's life! To capture that moment in its reality and transfer it to a painting,

To forget everything while doing it! To live in the moment, to be a sensitive vessel…

To forget everything that came before our time and to reflect only the image of what we see…

(Cezanne, cited by Berger, 31)

Do two strangers walking down the street communicate? When one notices the other, or when they don't.

What happens when you give way, when you acknowledge or reject its physical presence?

"You are here."

I acknowledge its existence.

I deny that it exists."

According to Berger, vision is not merely a process perceived by the eyes; it is also

It is the way we make sense of what we see. "Seeing" is not always about the past.

It is based on experiences, cultural codes, and learned meanings. A stranger

Our awareness of what we see is not based on the sheer reality of that moment, but on our own...

with images from our past and the social context in which we live

It takes shape. Seeing, in this sense, is a choice. What we see and how we see it,

What Lacan calls the "big Other" are the cultural and linguistic systems that have an influence on us.

It is determined by...

As dawn broke, the skies were still shrouded in the darkness of night.

Because of this, the lights in the houses started to come on one by one – usually the kitchen lights.

These are probably people eating on their way to work – who would they be burning for? How?

Are these people? How many of them pass by us during the day? They have their own suffering.

Is it? Their sorrows? Perhaps that day was the happiest day of their lives?

We don't know. We can't know. We will never know. As Berger said, what we see is everything.

time is viewed through the prism of our past experiences and cultural interpretations.

That passes. According to Lacan, however, the other always remains a stranger and an enigma.

We can only understand others to the extent of the communication and understanding we experience at that small point where the self ends and the other begins. Therefore, the relationships we build with others throughout our lives...

Communication is just a frozen moment in time, like a photograph's frame, captured through fleeting glances.

Our responses are limited to what we see in the image.

Our perspective depends on what we see and where we see it. And what we see depends on time and place.

It depended on the situation we were in. As Berger emphasized, “Seeing, every

Time affects our relationship with the world.

"But this relationship, as Lacan pointed out,

dependent not only on our individual senses, but also on the language, culture, and history of the Other.

This is how it happens. Seeing, therefore, is a process of producing meaning, and in this process

The things we see are presented to us within a framework shaped by the Other.

So how much of the world do we see, hear, and talk about?

What do we use when trying to make sense of things? What are our sources of support? The world,

Could it be offering a larger space than we perceive? Or is it the framework of the Other?

Is another way of seeing possible?

Artists

Ahmet Dündar
Beyza Tosunoglu
Dilara Yerlikaya
Dogukan Ciltas
Gunseli Baki
Hasret Sahin
Sait Ozer
Saltık Doğa Özsar
Serenay Anık Gök
Passion Cloudwhite
Yagiz Akdogan
Yucel Tunca