| Mutlu çerkez | |
 Mutlu çerkez, Untitled, |
Mutlu çerkez is the one artist in Wall Drawings who has refused to contribute work that relates to the architecture of the 200 Gertrude Street Gallery. Taking small design fragments from his last solo show (a floor plan and a page from the catalogue), çerkez has framed them as autonomous objects that no longer function as armature for a commercial exhibition. This contraction of the past in cryptic art objects is a familiar dynamic in çerkez's work. Using abstract designs and aphoristic symbols, he indexes experiences that have been lived in other times and places. But having been extracted from their functional context, the works now open themselves up to a future where they might be recontextualized or drawn into new narrative sequences. His works are singular coordinates in the pliable present of decorama, contracting the past and opening onto the future. |