Any Balcony? | 2019

Tophane-i Âmire CAC Single Dome Hall

May 23-June 9

Any Balcony? Performance video, which consists of performance images on May 23, 2019, accompanied the exhibition. Video by Selin Yağmur Sönmez & Aras Yazıcı.

Space organization view of Any Balcony? May 23-June 9, 2019.

Installation view of Any Balcony? May 23-June 9, 2019.

Exhibition view of Any Balcony? May 23-June 9, 2019.

Trunk Room, 2019, Installation of digital print on canvas, 280 x 358 cm.

Opening performance view of Any Balcony? May 23-June 9, 2019.

Exhibition view of Any Balcony? May 23-June 9, 2019.

Transported Balcony, 2019, Digital print on canvas, 250 x 600 cm.

Rosery Balcony, 2019, Installation of digital print on canvas, 180 x 305 cm

Exhibition view of Any Balcony? May 23-June 9, 2019.

Ebrus’ Balcony, 2019, Digital print on canvas, 233 x 616 cm.

Ebrus’ Balcony (detail), 2019, Digital print on canvas, 233 x 616 cm.

Installation view of Any Balcony? May 23-June 9, 2019.

Panoramic installation view of Any Balcony? May 23-June 9, 2019.

Photographs by Aras Yazıcı

ANY BALCONY?

May 23-June 9, 2019

Press Release

Lebriz Rona, creating works through the ideas developed over space and architecture, is now opening her fifth solo exhibition Any Balcony questioning our experiences in residential spaces, at Tophane-i Âmire Singel Dome Hall between 23 May- 9 June 2019. Rona, now, lays her relationship with space through balconies taken from Historical Wood Mansions, Concrete buildings and Apartments existing in real life in Istanbul installed together with the objects of actual scales.

In her Transported House exhibition, which took place at Daire Gallery in 2011, Lebriz Rona turned the parcel boxes into to a metaphor of a house by integrating the shapes placed on the parcel boxes with the boxes themselves. Rona, in her new exhibition Any Balcony, faces the balconies that she sees as an important part of the house and takes from the intersection point of the cultural and individual memory. According to her, balcony is both an aesthetic element in architecture and a joker space component shaped due to vital needs.

Lebriz Rona, who has developed her ideas by drawing, prepared the sketches of Any Balcony as a large as if they were installed in space to her large black sketch book. Rona searched for a suitable place for a long time in order to display the balconies in their real dimensions. Due to the limited dimensions of the spaces and the actual dimensions of the works, 9 balconies that she chose are finally exhibited in the Tophane-i Âmire Tek Dome Hall. During the opening, Rona hangs her works with two people she hired, accompanied by a performance to the places she shows on the boards in front of the viewers. It takes 3 hours to hang all the work with the music played. A video prepared as a document of this performance is also displayed in the exhibition. According to her, this performance is the action that “installation” is done literally and shown in front of the viewer’s eye during the opening. In addition to the site-specific works, Rona this time displays her work with a performance specially prepared for that space.

Security, privacy and protection are important factors for shelters. However, human is a social being. For this reason, the spaces in which it is located open out to a certain extent. The door, window, balcony are the architectural elements that provide permeability between inside and outside. With notebooks including thoughts and drawings, exhibition model, real-sized balconies on canvas and performance video, Lebriz Rona presents the viewer a life specific to the balconies that saves people from isolation in their home and becomes a history by being ejected from today’s architecture.