SEP 4–OCT 10
“Once Upon a Time Inconceivable”
Protocinema
Istanbul

In the installation Overgrowth (2004), Ceal Floyer plays with the scale of a bonsai tree projection by manipulating the slide projector’s distance from the wall. Similarly toying with physical space, Gülşah Mursaloğlu’s Merging Fields, Splitting Ends (2021) features six water- filled steel vessels; as the water boils, steam melts the containers’ bioplastic coverings, changing their material state. Such distortions abound in “Once Upon a Time Inconceivable.” Marking Protocinema’s ten-year anniversary, the group exhibition challenges the reliability of human perception through works by Abbas Akhavan, Hera Büyüktaşcıyan, Banu Cennetoğlu, Zeyno Pekünlü, Paul Pfeiffer, Amie Siegel, and Mario García Torres, in addition to Floyer and Mursaloğlu.