Registration
glass, foil, paint, window frame, 137 x 53 cm, each
digital drawings / mounted on Forex, framed, 41 x 56 cm, each
Soy Capitan, Berlin, Germany, 2011
The exhibition is composed of algorithmic combinations that take visions of public space as a departure point, melting the white cube in a pot with the neo-liberal city. The technique of abstraction translates codes of public access using virtual mapping systems such as Google Earth. By bringing together sites by which the public registers (in) Berlin – Alexanderplatz, the Museum Island, Potsdamer Platz and Checkpoint Charlie – the artist “renders” his own presence in the city through forms of conceptual abstractions that deal with how neo-liberal urban space is constructed by models of interaction, communication and mobility. Such virtual and visceral experiences provide a critical standpoint for the artist to re-imagine and reformulate our perception of the institution – in this specific context an art related one: a gallery in a rapidly changing part of the city, Neukölln, Berlin. The exhibition space is taken as a literal reference point by analyzing its material and architecture and directly addressing building the gallery is situated in. Thus the reality and location of the architecture are retained, the materiality of the abstract preserved. Demirci evokes the bureaucratic connotations of the word “registration” alongside the visual meaning embedded in its German cognates, advancing it as a term that impacts perceptual experience.
