“A fantastic world surrounds me and is me. I hear the wild song of a bird and I crush butterflies between my fingers. I’m a fruit gnawed by a worm. And I await the orgasmic apocalypse. A dissonant swarm of insects surrounds me, light of a burning lamp that I am. I exceed myself then in order to be. I’m in a trance. I penetrate the surrounding air. What fever: I can’t stop living. In this dense jungle of words that wrap themselves thickly around what I feel and think and experience and that transform all that I am into something of my own that nonetheless remains entirely separate from me. I watch myself think. What I ask myself is this: who is it in me that remains outside even of thinking? I’m writing you all of this since it’s a challenge I’m forced to accept with humility. I’m startled by my ghosts, by what is mythical and fantastic — life is supernatural. “

-Clarice Lispector-


“The Earth is looking at itself through me”, an excerpt from Clarice Lispector's book “The Stream of Life” is the inspiration for the title of the exhibition.
Özge Horasan's relationship with nature is an open game that is linked to encounters through causality and connections. Neither a representation nor a thing. An intermediary feminine language, a fruitful exuberance. Her working discipline, that is aimed at recognizing and researching matter internally, not externally, carries a modern mystical understanding to the space it transforms.
The first thing that stands out in Horasan's works is that she accepts the existential dynamics modestly and brings fluid contexts. Her practice is as “fertile” as it has a multi-faceted and transformative intermediary aspect.
In this context, it is an endless game of meaning-making through suspense and differentiation. Meaning becomes the action itself, the life itself, that will simply be born out of the process.

Tuba Kocakaya