Galeri / Miz is hosting Visor, the first solo exhibition of multidisciplinary artist and designer Kaan Tanhan, between 7 May and 14 June.
Tanhan mainly uses the combination of art and technology in her productions and searches for new possibilities by reconsidering familiar situations and concepts within the possibilities offered by technology. In this context, the artist’s works continue to be a constant experiment, rather than being results that offer final solutions to these situations and concepts.
The works exhibited in the Visor exhibition, which takes its name from the optical tool used to define the lens that frames the field of view of the camera, represent the technological projection of the world depicted in Orwell’s novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four” in today’s world, as a result of this experimental approach that lies at the basis of the artist’s production practice. brings it together with the audience. These works, which Tanhan constructed around the concepts of surveillance, tracking and viewfinder, are not only the representation of an alternative world, but on the contrary; through the algorithms created by the artist, the viewfinder interacts with the viewer and completes its cycle with the presence of the viewer and, in this case, the observed.
The world presented in Visor exhibition, whose conceptual framework was created by Öykü Demirci, offers an alternative to Orwell’s dystopian world, where the majority follows the minority and the minority controls it. Through the combination of art and technology, it explores the possibilities of a society that takes control and control from the hands of the minority, gives it to the society, and controls itself.