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Akbank 40th Contemporary Artists Award

Exhibition

Dates: Wednesday, June 01, 2022 ~ Saturday, July 30, 2022

Place: Akbank Sanat
The Akbank 40th Contemporary Artists Award Competition, organized by
Akbank Sanat together with the Painting and Sculpture Museums Asso-
ciation in order to encourage developments in the field of Contemporary
Art and support young artists, has concluded. The works chosen by the
jury will be exhibited both physically at Akbank Sanat and at Metaverse
between June 1 and July 30, 2022.
As a result of the evaluation made by the members of the jury, 24 works
of 23 artists are included in the exhibition selection among 1011 appli-
cations from various regions of Turkey. Celebrating its 40th anniversa-
ry, this year’s jury members included İpek Duben, Çelenk Bafra, Gönül
Nuhoğlu, Derya Bigalı and Fatoş Üstek, who also curated the exhibition.
The artists whose works will be exhibited in the exhibition, which can be
viewed free of charge at Akbank Art and Metaverse between June 1 and
July 30, 2022; Ahmet Berkin Günsay, Alara Başar, Ali Kanal, Begüm Çelik, Betül Sertkaya, Buğra Erol, Cemil Olgun Can,
Dilara Başköylü, Elif Özen, Emre Çalış, Ferhat Tunç, Gizem Candan, İrem Sezer, Lalin Mercan, Nazif Can Akçalı, Oğuz Gököz,
Özlem Cıbır, Özlem Köse, Rıdvan Aşar, Sümeyra Çetin, Yasemin Kaplan, Zeynep Sude Can, Zülkif Esin.

Pareidolia Exhibition

Dates: Thursday, June 09, 2022 ~ Saturday, July 30, 2022

Place: Labirent Sanat

Labyrinth Art presents the “Pareidolia” exhibition, which includes the
latest works of Ayşe Kapusuz, Bahadır Yıldız, Gülfem Kessler, Mali
Çakır, Şinasi Göktürkler, Tuna Üner, Yakup Uysal, between 9 June - 30
July 2022.
Sometimes a cloud becomes a dragon in our eyes;
A smoke, you see, has become a bear, or a lion,
Then a towered fortress, a terrible rock,
A rolling mountain, a deep blue peninsula,
Trees above, nodding to our world from above,
Trees that make the air in our eyes camels.
Shakespeare, “Antony and Cleopatra”
Our perception of the world is determined not only by the inputs to our
senses, but is also strongly fueled by our previous experience of the world. Sometimes, through an unconscious inference
process, our mind interprets the fragmented and incomplete visual signals on a plastered wall, a tree trunk, mountain or
rock formations, clouds, paving stones, ink stains, or spilled coffee on the table, as a familiar image. Pareidolia is the
equivalent of this condition in psychology, which is perhaps a kind of illusion that most of us experience once or often at
some point in our lives. Facial pareidolia is the imaginary perception of absent faces. To see a face in a cloud, in a coffee
foam, on blocks of rock are examples of facial pareidolia. Due to the social significance of faces and the ability of people
to process them, pareidolia is the most well-known and best-noticed of its forms.

The exhibition is inspired by the phenomenon of pareidolia, which many fields benefit from, from Paleolithic cave paintings
to ancient art, sky research in science, the Rorschach test in psychology to evaluate the personality of the individual, from
Renaissance painting and literature to modern art, facial recognition technology and artificial intelligence researches used
today.
In the Pareidolia exhibition, you can see the works of Ayşe Kapusuz, Bahadır Yıldız, Gülfem Kessler, Mali Çakır, Şinasi
Göktürkler, Tuna Üner and Yakup Uysal, in which they used pareidolia as a method in different contexts in the creative
process, at Labyrinth Art until 30 July 2022.