Two Candles
Solo exhibition at 400x118 - IMC, Istanbul
February 4th - March 17th 2023
Installation photos by Zeynep Beler and Emin Yu
Exhibition text by Zeynep Beler - https://400x118.org/rominameric
Casting the Circle - Galerist, Istanbul - 2015
Artists: Mükerrem Tuncay, Romina Meriç, Luna Ece Bal
Curator: Asli Seven
Photos from GALERIST http://www.galerist.com.tr/en/exhibitionview-casting-the-circle
The exhibition’s title refers to the multiple meanings associated with the act of casting: casting a mold to give form to matter, casting a spell or cards to see and effect the future, casting actors to play out a role, or casting a net to abstract a meaningful portion from the wider expanse of reality. Casting a circle is then to draw an impassable spatial and temporal limit that suspends the acquired knowledge of reality to suggest alternate modes of producing meaning and action; while at the same time it refers to contemporary feminist revaluations of practices of magic and witchcraft. The circle that is cast by each one of these three artists acts as a hole within the fabric of the real. The works in the exhibition propose metamorphic relationships between altered states of consciousness, sleep and wakefulness, science and magic, human body parts and elements of landscape. - text by Aslı Seven
Beyond Words / Body Language (4.th International Mardin Biennial) - Mardin, Turkey - 2018
Curators: Nazlı Gürlek, Fırat Arapoğlu , Derya Yücel
"Body Language" which forms one of the three thematic sub titles of the 4th International Mardin Biennial, suggests the opening of new channels for allowing the flow of healing, unifying and strengthening force of creation in a bid to enter into communication with the various ways of bodily expression.” excerpt from exhibition text by - Nazlı Gürlek
Biennial website for complete exhibition text, artist list and more info >
https://mardinbienali.org/arsiv/4th-mardin-biennial/
“We are in this together, we are not one and the same” - EspaceArtaud - Lyon, France - 2019
Artists: Zeynep Beler, Manon Harrois, Romina Meric, Nelly Monnier, Mükerrem Tuncay, Hazel Ann Watling, Nadia Lichtig, Laura Pardini
Documentation above includes works by multiple artists, some intertwined with each other and all installed collaboratively.
(Exhibition photos by Mukerrem Tuncay)
‘We are in this together we are not one and the same’ (Title quoted from Rosi Braidotti) was a residential and collective installation. The process gave artists freedom to mix their works with works of others; making new combinations, and sometimes choose a specific single presentation. The project was in the context of a residency supported by Lyon 4th district, and was tailored to be parallel to the 15th edition of the Lyon Biennale - Là où les eaux se mêlent (There, where the waters mix together)
SUPER FOG - 9 Great Jones St, New York, NY - 2014
Artists: Beverly Acha, Mike Ambron, Romina Meric, Dustin Metz, Alan Prazniak
Curator: Kati Gegenheimer
Super fog is a little known weather phenomenon -
Impossible to predict.
In foggy conditions, SLOW DOWN.
You never know how long it will last.
In the spirit of oncoming heat and humidity mixed with increasing awareness of our unpredictable global weather conditions, a show of paintings founded on the premise of a weather phenomenon is nothing short of relevant. SUPER FOG is a an unpredictable and fleeting “pop-up” show featuring emerging artists with a knack for the phenomenological, the atmospheric, the thick, the impenetrable, the immersive, and possibly most importantly the most sensitive in sense perception. The aura of these paintings, for me, can best be likened to looking back through your eyes into your interior self: something that at first is a haze but becomes more clear as you stop, slow down, and focus.
SUPER FOG is unstable at its’ core. It can dissipate just as quickly as it miraculously accumulates. SUPER FOG is born out of an alchemical reaction in the atmosphere which seems to always be the case with a good painting: all of the stars align, so to speak. In the science of a SUPER FOG, smoke and ash bond with humidity, forming droplets around each speck of ash floating in the air. As the droplets multiply, the smoke turns into an impenetrable mix of fog and smoke: SUPER FOG. This seems like a perfect parallel to hand grasping brush to paint touching canvas while colors touch each other forming a surface that seems to have finite and infinite space. It is said that when SUPER FOG forms, it forms “an almost solid wall with visibility reduced to near zero.” For me, these paintings mimic that effect – the view of anything beyond the paintings is reduced to near zero when my vision is enveloped by them.
- text by Kati Gegenheimer