AHMET GÜNEŞTEKİN – LOST ALPHABET

Ahmet Güneştekin’s solo exhibition, The Lost Alphabet by The Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM) weaves works across diverse mediums, focusing on affective associations of sculptural materials combined with objects in narrative constellations that bridge ancient mythologies with the changing environment of contemporary life. Curated by Christoph Tannert, with the contributions of IMM Culture, the show takes place in the city’s new cultural hub extensively restored by IMM Heritage, preserving the historic Feshane-i Amire.

The Lost Alphabet features sculptures, installations, videos, sound works, ceramics, and fabrics, blending macro and micro scales through meticulous material interventions, and it combines works of the artist’s sublime spheres, whose quest is as metaphysical as tangibly formal and spurs thoughts and forms through overlapping spaces and objects.

Given rise to fluid mythological worlds, the artist’s practice encompasses installations whose bodily presence transforms a visual perception – a face-to-face experience – into a fully haptic, subjective encounter; filmic and sound practices in which he develops micro-rhythmic structures that challenge the field of the historical narrative; dimensional works that expand his interpretations into meta-myths with multi-faceted figures seamlessly inhabiting canvas, textiles and ceramics; hybrid works mostly affected by migration objects, their volume in space, and the memori