How can representation directly influences the form of expression?
Does the artist's mind and perception represent reality?
Does the image we see embody the meaning we define for it?

Ece Haskan’s first solo exhibition entitled "Hide and Seek" brings together sculptures that will meet the audience for the first time, along with the artist's recent works. In the exhibition, games and stories, which are among the earliest products of human creativity, meet the audience in various forms. Fairy tales, children's games, costumes, and all created images become metaphorical plays. They are brought beyond their purpose by the artist and made visible with possible meanings. Thus, beyond what is visible, a game of hide and seek begins for the audience to find and complete what is hidden, and the perception of reality evolves into different dimensions in the human mind. The multiple interpretations of the meanings we link to images create obscure gray areas concerning reality.

Ece Haskan deals with the objective and subjective by making colourful interventions in these gray areas in the exhibition "Hide and Seek", meanwhile, she takes advantage of the contrasts with her own perceptual experiences. She plays games with images by altering the functions of the subject and object. She uses irony as a narrative tool, merging the human body with objects in a non-hierarchial way. While Haskan conveys human creativity through the human body with the images she deals with, she also approaches disturbingly strange images with a positive reality. She creates ironic narratives that confront the viewer with the inconsistencies of daily life. While these stories have a pluralistic narrative, the perception of time and space is shaped by undefined. Ece Haskan's works in the "Hide and Seek" exhibition meet the audience as the representation of subject and object intertwines in imaginative compositions. The compositions containing subjective experiences against objective views display a hidden and implicit attitude within the realm of possibilities. In this context, giving a meaning to these pieces becomes possible only through the interplay of consciousness and cultural codes within the light of subjective experiences. Objects and subjects that are familiar to the human mind become symbols that seek their meaning by combining them with different experiences.

We can summarize the exhibition under three different titles:
‘’Anthropomorphism as an Art Form’’, ‘’Multilayered Stories’’, and ‘‘The Experience of Object’’.

Anthropomorphism as an Art Form: involves creating compositions by attributing human characteristics to non-human entities or objects. These works challenge the existing functions of human body parts such as hands and feet, going through the artist’s mental process.

Multilayered Stories: encompass works that deform existing fairy tales and stories, allowing for new expressions. These artworks go beyond defined narratives to present multilayered interpretations.

The Experience of Objects: includes artworks that transcend the defined functionality of objects in daily life or in imagery, matching them with different experiences.

Ece Haskan’s works in the "Hide and Seek" exhibition merge the complex relationship between object and subject with an ironic and metaphorical narrative, transforming into symbolic compositions that confront the audience with the contradictions of everyday life.

26.04.2024-15.05.2014