To Remember
2017
Adahan Hotel, Istanbul
Serra Behar’s first solo exhibition, which is also a retrospective of her works called To Remember, shares with us the important moments of her artistic output in which she superposes doing and being. Each of her pieces is a milestone marking the turning point of her life. Behar calls them the trail of pebbles on her journey of existence; left behind in her labyrinth where her mind and her heart intertwines, not only to remember, but also to remind. Because for us art is the silent collaboration of remembering and reminding beyond the consciousness. It’s for Us as much as it is for I. Art is finding Us as we’re delving deep into the truth of I.
Mythologies, religions and all recorded legends of humanity ultimately whisper in our ear that we are all born in possession of the all the knowledge of the universe. Just like Plato says, knowing is remembering. Everything we know through learning and doing in this world is solely for this remembrance. Each of us is a mirror being held to ourselves and the entire humanity, reflecting the whole cosmos. To Remember is also to feel the unifying power of a consociation beyond time with the aid of what metaphors carried through time and presented to our senses.
On the other hand absoluteness is in the sole effort and movement, remind us the Behar's works. Animatronic nature of her endeavor provides movement in the singularity of the work itself while continuously growing and multiplying it by the virtue of being effortlessly and lightheartedly joined together. They shout out that the life doesn’t progress through constructs, that everyone can multiply only by advancing in their mono disorganized labyrinth. Behar says: “The life itself is fiction, a theatrical journey within an illusion. Everything I produce is a section of my share from the screen of illusions, that is all.
To Remember is an inter similitude with the consociation of the artist. It’s a hope that; with togetherness, the shroud around the unknown can clear out at moments.
