Love’s Executioner 

 

Love’s Executioner is the first solo exhibition by Günbike Erdemir and outcome of a research residency realized in Turin during the fall 2022 in partnership with Morpho.

Love’s Executioner presents a new body of works that arose from Erdemir’s exploration of the symbology and the urban tales related to the city of Turin and its architecture.

In her practice, drawings and sculptures reframe narratives drawn from mythology, tales and history into contemporary and intimate settings, addressing themes such as death, desire, queerness, fertility.

A dark and demonic imagery germinates from elements and settings encountered in the streets and buildings of the city. Death and eroticism, voyeurism and power are experienced through the eyes of three recurrent characters: an executioner, a ghost and a lurker. Their ambiguous natures, hung in between relentless urges and tender devotion, find themselves into otherness, their object of desire, to reconstruct their fragmented being.

Sacredness and perversion pervade the space. Two lovers embracing each other are framed in what could be either an altar or a gallows: a memento of human finitude and of our need for relation.
Outside, a young wisteria blossoms from a ceramic vase which depicts the mystical figures that inhabit these narratives of death and desire.

The project is realized in partnership with Morpho.

more info here:
https://almanacprojects.com/exhibitions/guenbike-erdemir-loves-executioner

photo: Sebastiao