“Tiny details imperceptible to us decide everything.” ― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo “Detail” exhibition is an investigation of eight artists with different standpoints, who approach details that we miss out on, overlook, ignore, and think we can’t perceive. The artists, that can further regard the detail as a technique, aim to close the contemporary gap between the piece of art and the viewer by creating works that invite the viewer beyond the visible. The exhibition focuses on the way in which these eight artists that use different techniques examine the details they incorporate to their works, while concurrently centering on the process of production.
‘Detail’ has no scale. The distance between the observer and the observed changes the meaning of the detail and urges it to be questioned. What can be viewed through a microscope and a telescope both define the detail. In the macro-scale, satellite images transform scenes on earth into details; perception-wise, micro/macro world is read from the same standpoint. Can the meaning of the detail be defined through a relationship of near and far? Can the relationship the viewer established with the image through distance be questioned? Buşra Tunç
