Turkish artist and photographer Erdal Inci bases his video works on the principle of Artistic Ornaments: the continuation of a graphic element by means of cloned motions into an infinite whole, creating a combination of global contemporary media culture with the artistic tradition of his country. He adds the frames of his video recordings of movements all together, within a single image quadrangle. This restriction to a static square may be seen against the background of his studies of painting: "I use the image rectangle like a painter's canvas," he says. Using a digitally generated time loop, the protagonists move in the videos in infinite repetition. Often Inci uses images of himself in mundane situations and transforms simple snapshots into gorgeous video loops whose pattern the viewer tries to decrypt. "I noticed that you can duplicate a motion to infinity. Therefore, you can make all the individual time windows of the same performance visible. This gives you the chance to think like a painter or a choreographer and to form a mass. Thus, one does not fill the frame of with shapes or colors but with movement."
Erdal Inci was born in 1983 in Ankara. He studied painting at the Hacettepe University, Ankara, and lives and works in Istanbul. The exhibition comes about in collaboration with Istanbul Berlin Art Bridge.