breaking point

year: 2003
start: 2003-03-19
end: 2003-04-17
artists: lerzan özer

Lerzan Özer's exhibit titled 'Breaking Point' can not be described just as an installation in porcelain. It can also be interpreted as a kind of dance or a ritual where the artist herself plays the leading role. Her figure appears as practising siluettes inserted on plain ceramic blocks.

Calligraphies of glaze give color to these siluettes and their shadows. A rythmic struggle occurs with repeating symbols such as holes, corridors and paths faceing obstacles throughout the show.Using the main room of the gallery from wall to wall and from floor to ceiling Özer is installing hundreds of fragile fragments in the form of birds converging multiple V shaped composition. Each is tied individually to the ceiling by a thread of the same color with a few meaningful exceptions. These threads seem endless, forming more crosssections than parallels in the air. A huge flock of black birds meet an equal number of white birds at the lower point of the heralded V. The captured moment of tension where the two opposites are balanced brings this performance to its climax.