apparent life

2017 − 20 Beler’s oil paintings, sculptures, and unique prints of her digital drawings orbiting the exhibition “Apparent Life”, refer to the atomic structure of the LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) technologies of our screens, determinant of the ways we see, record, and archive today. A selection of images with no “share value”, the evaporating styrofoam and her prints indistinguishable from watercolours, also limn the in-between state of our lives in which our boundaries with these screens are long gone and everything oscillates between flowing and staying still, labile and stable, movement and stillness. Like an alchemist, Beler reverberates the at once metaphorical and non-ephemeral atoms flowing from our liquid crystal screen, pulls and expands them into the air, and onto the physicality of the conventional canvas. On this three-dimensional, haptic, and textured frame we may even encounter the reflection of a flatscreen captured by another LCD. From the luminous reflection of an LCD to the brush strokes on the canvas, she makes all the potentials of an image, all their past and futures apparent. - Naz Beşcan, 2022