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This photograph emphasizes light and shadow as architectural elements themselves—angular shadows cast dramatic geometric patterns across white surfaces, creating visual architecture that exists only through illumination. The work investigates how light reveals or conceals spatial structure, making invisible forces visible through their effects. Sharp diagonal shadows fracture the gallery's uniformity, demonstrating how even "neutral" exhibition spaces are constantly transformed by changing light conditions that exhibitions typically aim to control or eliminate.

 

Sukan’s photographic work explores the conventions of the modern white cube as both an architectural context and as a content subject in and of itself. By addressing the notions of spatial memory, presentation, and representation, this exhibition enhances the confrontation between visibility and invisibility in social and phenomenological terms. By means of deconstruction, intervention, and reconstruction of the white cube, Sukan brings complicity between opposites and creates dualism between recognition and non-recognition, visibility and invisibility, abstraction and concrete concepts. The result is an entirely new space, an architecture of past and future, with a continuously shifting viewpoint. Sukan proposes a phenomenal situation, challenging the viewer on the realism of the photograph and the memory of a space, while also opening up the horizons of the viewer’s perception and interpretation of the exhibition's own immediate setting.

 

Angular Shadow Architecture uses the geometry of light to reveal invisible forces that shape dramatic patterns in perception on white cubic surfaces. Photography from the INtheVISIBLE series. Available at The Art Design Project, Miami Beach.

Angular Shadow Architecture Photography - Untitled 5 from INtheVISIBLE, 2013

$5,000.00Price
  • Arslan Sükan

    Untitled 5, 2013

    From the series of INtheVISIBLE

    Archival inkjet print on baryta photographic paper

     

    Dimensions: 66.93 H x 100.4 W in.

    Edition of 3 + 1AP

     

    Signed

  • Born in Ankara, Turkey in 1973, Sukan's art has been showcased in notable venues worldwide, including Maison des Metallos (Paris), Maxxi Museum (Rome), Istanbul Modern Museum, and major art fairs like Art Basel and FIAC. He currently lives and works between New York and Istanbul.

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