GALLERY 1
ARTIST TALK:
IN CONVERSATION WITH ALEYNA DEMET AND JUN EVRIM
JUNE 10 6PM - 7PM VIA ZOOM
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Platform Arts are proud to present our next Artist Talk event will be In Conversation with Aleyna Demet and Jun Evrim.
Currently exhibiting at Platform Arts as part of the May Gallery Exhibition Series, Aleyna Demet's, KiMLiK, and Jun Evrim's, Recall, correlate to tell stories of connection and identity.
KiMLiK is a collection of works by multidisciplinary Turkish-Australian artist, Aleyna Demet, that explore the artist’s mother’s experience of “otherness” and in turn, its effects on herself, as presented across photomontage, sound and installation.
Recall sees Evrim investigate the contexts and concepts of memory, metaphor and materiality. He does this by thoughtfully re-contextualising and reassembling readymade, found and fabricated objects.
Facilitated by head curator, Amber Smith, this In Conversation will take a deep dive into the stories behind the artworks, and take you on a journey from art inception to installation.
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Aleyna Demet is an emerging fibre artist from Melbourne, Australia. Demet’s work positions itself in the intersection between art and craft, exploring unconventional and contemporary applications for traditional techniques and materials.
Originally from a Turkish background, Demet was raised in a household where craft was primarily done by the women, the products of which held great sentimental value. It is through these contexts that she explores the possibilities of re-contextualising the systems embedded within craft, using it to analyse her own personal histories and empathise the histories of others. It is through these applications that her viewers are able to see with the eyes of others.
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See Aleyna’s Instagram here
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Jun Evrim is an artist and designer whose work investigates the contexts and concepts of memory, metaphor and materiality. He does this by thoughtfully re-contextualising and reassembling readymade, found and fabricated objects.
The resulting sculptures and installations are durational, self-reflexive and considered — a personal ethnography — where the revised material compositions are transformed by process of recollection. Evrim thus facilitates a redemption and resolution, where objects give voice to the absent and provide an invitation to the viewer to mediate and contemplate on the universality of human experience.
By reconceptualising memory, and inherited memory, Jun postulates on the relationship between time and space, and the echo of the body that resounds within this.
‘Recall’ is a continuing investigation of the personal and subjective contexts of his object-based practice.
Born in Sydney and raised in Istanbul, Jun currently lives and works in Melbourne.
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See Jun’s Instagram here
