This retrospective of İnci Eviner, put together by Istanbul Modern, showcases the artist’s creative process from the 1980s to the present. It allows us to see the development and transformation of her rich search for expression, which extends from drawing,painting, and video to installation, photography, and sculpture. The presentation of Eviner’s artistic output is not strictly chronological, but rather interweaves past and present, and even incorporates the exhibition space itself. Drawing is central to Eviner’s works; she defines the point of departure of her practice as expressions made through lines on paper. She builds and constantly enriches her artistic approach, strolling through a boundless visual language ranging from art historical allegories, iconographies, illustrations, and mythologies to contemporary ideograms and pictograms. Weaving together the violence at the heart of the beautiful, the potential of the repressed, and the unmatched creativity of the unconscious, her works appear simultaneously contemporary and timeless. In terms of the diversity of her areas of interest and research, İnci Eviner is undoubtedly one of the most creative and contemporary artists of her generation. The exhibition brings together an inventory that spans close to forty years and reveals the rich and profound connections she establishes both with herself and with the unity of art, culture, history, nature, and the unconscious that makes us human. The exhibition which is curated by Levent Çalıkoğlu and Senem R. Kantarcı, can be seen until 27 November at Istanbul Modern.
