as a chance meeting between a cloud and a rubber stamp on a cusp of land
solo by Merve İşeri
Ballon Rouge, Brussels
25.04 - 08.06.2019
Picture yourself standing on a cliff. It is rugged, wild, but shines seductively with salty sea water. Lush trees, patches of grass and exotic flowers surround you. You look at the sky which seems to float by with a certain velocity. Looking down again, you start to get dizzy. But not scary dizzy. More like contemplative dizzy. You forget what is up and what is down. A knee desires the floor. An arm swings to jump. Your head is pulled up into the clouds. The wind soothes your skin and frees your hair. You jump up. You tumble down. You land. You stand still and you overlook. You float.
For her first solo exhibition in Brussels and her second with Ballon Rouge Collective, Merve Iseri invites the viewer into a luscious garden of imagined delights. Working on (often unprimed) canvas and paper, she conveys a rich and sensual universe that entices, connecting dream with reality and physical manifestation with fantasized substance.
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