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Gökçe İrten 

January 14 – February 27, 2022 

Opening: January 14, Friday I 5pm – 8pm 

Mixer is proud to welcome artist, author, and illustrator Gökçe İrten’s second solo exhibition “Self Layers” in its project room.

Gökçe İrten’s exhibition Self Layers focuses on the individual’s multilayered relationship between their self-identity, their location, and everything around them. The artist builds the exhibition on her efforts to understand the emotions of identities stuck in societal order and to make sense of the individual’s quest to find self and to rebuild it.

The network of relationships between the city and the individual is a vital element in Gökçe İrten’s artistic and literary works. The artist’s first exhibition at Mixer, Neighborhood, also centered around the relationship between the city and the individual. In Self Layers, the artist puts the individual in the center of this relationship and opens up the layers of their journey to find self.

Gökçe İrten adds physical layers to her exhibition as well as her collages with mixed techniques on paper are accompanied with sculpture and spatial alterations. Self Layers bear the traces of the changes in the individual’s moods, memory, and self, all set against a world woven with various forms and textures. While looking for the answer as to how individuals protect themselves in conflicting social environments, the artist also strives to formalize the state of experiencing these processes. The exhibition enables the audience to explore questions such as “Can individuals protect themselves by distancing themselves from the conflict, or are they the ones causing the conflict?”

Self Layers can be seen at Mixer’s project room between January 14 and February 27, Tuesday to Saturday, between 11am and 7pm.