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The title of the exhibition, 'ONE' refers to unity, as well as loneliness. Unity in the sense of how we want to see the world today and loneliness as how we end up seeing it in reality.

Sümer Sayin deconstructs elements of individual entities. Her work focuses on the moments when the concepts of indeterminacy, probability, relativity and hope intersect, considering mental probabilities created from the indefinite and building systems that give access to new perceptions surged during the process. Working with maps, flags, bills, sculpture, video and other media, Say?n proposes reformulated versions of representations of human knowledge.

This is the case of the piece that opens the exhibition: 'Parade', a video in which the 60 largest economies in the world ... according to the IMF, march one after the other. The countries appear in a globe in alphabetical order, one by one, like actors in a military parade. The pieces of land, isolated from their context and completely surrounded by a single ocean, come and go. By this decontextualizationhidden relationships and contrasts between different types of power become clearer.

The world and its representation is also the star of the three acrillycs that comprises the series 'Maps of Transition'. In 'The World is Round' and in 'The World of Transition' the world map is re-formulated by an analogous method where new connections and disruptions between borders is built, while in 'The Country of Transition', the map of Turkey is re-formulated as duplicated horizontal lines, rotating angles borders. The space between the lines corresponds to land. The restructuring of the borders, thus creates exits to the left and right of the image.

The exhibition continues with the sculpture 'I want the world to stop', a piece that is an imaginary illustration of the collision between an unknown object that looks like a meteorite and the planet Earth. The meteorite is larger than the Earth, practicing in the collision as an outside force that could result poetically in the stop of its movement and time instead of an explosion, and considering the balance as a kind of equation that could be reformulated in different circumstances, as opposed to a constant location.

Sayin Sümer explores the fragility of the process of re-construction in '2,5 D 'and' Inflation '. In the first one Say?n weaves by hand a new map of the world from two identical maps on paper and in the process adds a new layer to the two dimensions of the paper through the bending of it, creating movements and making border to appear blurry or displaced. In 'Inflation', two identical bills of 5 Turkish liras undergo the same process, but in this case referring to globalization of the world and re-building a single bill that artificially and ironically doubles its value, suggesting the power of manipulation money.

With the drawings on graph paper 'Intervals', Say?n builds her own utopia bringing together continents and countries while maintaining their own identities. Probabilities that Sümer manipulates and that can be delusional at times, while at other times they are hopeful, placing them together in successive moments or layers and thus creating dilemmas.

The exhibition is completed with Sümer?s last piece, 'One world, many stars' where the artist, deconstructing the flags of all countries and arranging them in alphabetical order, creates a large flag made only by stars on a black background. The union of the flags relocated recreates an abstracted reflection of national borders that fade into the darkness to leave us a starry night scene of an unnatural appearance, which refers to the dream of one world under the sky.

About Sümer Say?n

Sümer Say?n was born in 1985, in Istanbul. After finisihing her studies in the French Highschool St. Joseph and her part-time violin education in the concervatory, she entered Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts, department of painting, in 2003.

During her studies, she participated in some exhibitions and projects, including Siemens 'Borders and Orbits' Young Talents Contest Exhibition and two shows in Apartment Project, an independent artist's initiative and art space in Istanbul. In the years 2005 and 2006 she held her studies in Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts de Lyon, in France as an exchange student. In 2008 she started her master of Fine Art education in the Oslo National Academy of Art, in Norway. There, she had solo and group shows in Galleri 21.25, Ska Cafe and Open Academy. That same year she exhibited also in Kasa Galeri, Istanbul.

Sümer has participated in the workshop organised by Valand School of Fine Arts, Gothenborg, with a KUNO's grant. She has also been part of other international exhibitions and festivals such as Athens Video Art Festival. In 2009, she participated to Skopje Biennial, where she won the Res Artis Award.