Heval Zeliha Yüksel Mimar / Architect
Günnur Özsoy is meeting the audience with her new exhibition titled “Costa Mea” between 5 December 2015 and 3 January 2016 at PG Art Gallery. In this exhibition, the artist is combining her minimal approach resulting from her educational background on design, with her personal issues built on the relationship of emptiness, space and unity.
In her artworks which she produces as related pieces using induction both in terms of concept and form, Özsoy is channeling the energy of every moment she turns to herself into the curves of the sculpture. Carrying the traces of female body, the dynamic aspect of her works accompanies her way of expression which is supported with personal references. The work titled “costa mea” which means my ribs in Latin both reflects the imagery power of a mass whose unity is deliberately destroyed and reinterprets the creation myth that inspired many disciplines from literature to art and which is still up to date in our consciousness. The hanging sculptures on the other hand, are creating a natural attraction force capturing our visual perception with their rotation movement on their own axises. In this way, they invite the ones who are not content with the visible, into the boundaries of meaning.
Özsoy’s sculptures have firm, smooth, shiny and flamboyant surfaces and she is ascribing meanings contrary to the visible qualities of her works. Revealing themselves through the dominance of soft forms, these layers are evoking the struggle of a whole which is shattered but not yet dissipated.
The artist is putting multi-layered orientations under a single theme and her unusual approach which throws a curve to the traditional perceptions of sculpture, brings a fresh point of view to the concept of dissipation which is contrary to the essence of fact.
