Sedat Ayhan : Roommate

10.02 – 02.03.2024

Sedat Ayhan’s frst solo exhibition, Roommate, presents the phantasmagoria of ordinary reality through surrealist methodology and a grotesque humor. Inspired by history and combining the tradition of multi-fgure painting with the basic components of abstraction, the artist aims to create new perceptual problems about the visible by challenging the possibilities of fgurative form. Compositions shaped by instinctive gestures and unplanned shaping constitute the artist’s production practice.

In this exhibition, Sedat Ayhan constructs a comprehensive personal mythology with reference to Freud’s “primordial clan and father myth”. The fgure of the “dead primordial father” in Freud’s myth appears as a psychotic, incoherent and infantilized Spectre who is trying to maintain his power. In a phantasmatic universe, the possible dysfunctional and destructive effects of the father’s inappropriate presentation of himself on the family -and on society in general- are examined.

The title “roommate” ascribed to the Spectre traces the unconscious delusions and psychotic fashbacks caused by the emergence of the “A-Father”, based on the idea of sharing the same nest with the operator of the law.

Sedat Ayhan

The Urvater 2, 2023

Oil on canvas

80 x 60 cm

Artwork ID: 1043

Sedat Ayhan

We’re watching you, 2023

Oil on canvas

155 x 180 cm

Artwork ID: 1038

Sedat Ayhan

Die Zwölf Brüder#1, 2023

Watercolor on Paper

21 x 29,5 cm

Artwork ID: 1099

Sedat Ayhan

The Urvater, 2023

Oil on canvas

70 x 90 cm

Artwork ID: 1046

Sedat Ayhan

Jolly autocrat, 2023

Oil on canvas

155 x 180 cm

Artwork ID: 1039

Sedat Ayhan

Die Zwölf Brüder#2, 2023

Watercolor on Paper

21 x 29,5 cm

Artwork ID: 1098

Sedat Ayhan

Die Zwölf Brüder#4, 2024

Watercolor on Paper

21 x 29,5 cm

Artwork ID: 1096

Sedat Ayhan

Father’s Son #2, 2023

Oil pastel on Paper

21 x 29,5 cm

Artwork ID: 1131

Sedat Ayhan

The Limb Dance #5, 2023

Oil pastel on Paper

21 x 19,5 cm

Artwork ID: 1110

Sedat Ayhan

Die Zwölf Brüder#5, 2024

Watercolor on Paper

21 x 29,5 cm

Artwork ID: 1095

Sedat Ayhan

Last night’s scream, 2023

Oil on canvas

80 x 60 cm

Artwork ID: 1041

Sedat Ayhan

Patient order, 2023

Oil on canvas

80 x 80 cm

Artwork ID: 1048

Sedat Ayhan

Biopolitics #2, 2023

Charcoal on Paper

25 x 35 cm

Artwork ID: 1119

Sedat Ayhan

Biopolitics #3, 2023

Charcoal on Paper

25 x 35 cm

Artwork ID: 1118

Sedat Ayhan

Biopolitics #5, 2023

Charcoal on Paper

25 x 35 cm

Artwork ID: 1115

Sedat Ayhan

Dominant, 2023

Oil on canvas

70 x 90 cm

Artwork ID: 1044

Sedat Ayhan

Theory of Didactical Situations, 2023

Oil on canvas

120 x 180 cm

Artwork ID: 1049

Sedat Ayhan

Devil, 2023

Oil on canvas

25 x 40 cm

Artwork ID: 1040

Sedat Ayhan

Die Zwölf Brüder, 2024

Textile

85 x 155 cm

Artwork ID: 1080

Sedat Ayhan

The Big Fish, 2023

Oil on canvas

70 x 90 cm

Artwork ID: 1042

Sedat Ayhan

Freudian, 2023

Oil on canvas

120 x 180 cm

Artwork ID: 1047

Sedat Ayhan

Untitled, 2023

Oil pastel on paper

Artwork ID: 1037

Sedat Ayhan

Delicate Dragon #1, 2023

Oil pastel on Paper

21 x 29,5 cm

Artwork ID: 1128

Sedat Ayhan

Untitled, 2023

Graphite Aquarelle Pencil on Paper

21 x 29,5 cm

Artwork ID: 1084

Sedat Ayhan

The Dick Tree #1, 2023

Oil pastel on Paper

21 x 29,5 cm

Artwork ID: 1129

Sedat Ayhan

Sedat Ayhan (İzmir, 1987) graduated from Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Fine Arts. Inspired by history and combining the tradition of multi-figure painting with the basiccomponents of abstraction, the artist aims to create new perceptual problems about the visible by challenging the possibilities of figurative form. Compositions shaped by instinctive gestures and unplanned shaping constitute the artist’s production practice.

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