In her exhibition moment_space situated at the space of Gallery Apel, Canan Dağdelen draws attention to the “moment”, which is defined in relation to the concepts of space and time as the shortest indivisible time period, or the shortest span of time almost equal to the blink of an eye. Her works in the exhibition mainly focus on text, photography and architecture, all of which are integrated into the exhibition concept which is reduced to its essence in a poetic language.

History of writing, personal handwriting, meanings of words and word plays take a significant place in Dağdelen’s thinking and research. She configures essential forms of traditional architecture into modular systems she herself has developed and installs them into the exhibition space. In this exhibition, she does so with a concern for the binding function of architecture, as well as transience and fluidity. In her black and white analogue photographs, which she describes as objects, infinity of time, moment, movement and architecture fuse into each other. Significance of emptiness, relation between the whole and its parts, transparency and lightness, internal and external relations, and a desire to achieve non-gravity are among Dağdelen’s main concerns in her work. “moment_space” is the second solo exhibition of the artist at Gallery Apel.Canan DağdelenCanan Dağdelen was born in 1960 in Istanbul. She graduated from Vienna University of Economics and Business in 1986. She later received her MFA from the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where she has been working as a lecturer since 2003. She still continues live in Vienna. Recently, her works have been exhibited in Istanbul Modern Art Museum, Operation Room / Amerikan Hastanesi, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Galeri Nev Ankara, 1st International Mardin Biennial, MAK Museum für angewandte Kunst / Gegenwartskunst Vienna, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Gallery Apel and Akbank Art Center.