From the Exhibition Text by Hatice Utkan OĢzden:
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When George Orwell published his book 1984 little did everyone know the novel creates great connections between concepts of freedom in society, past and present and history. As time passed, the work became a unique creation, which opened a new way of interpreting history. This was not a coincidence, for Orwell commentaries on history were crucial in the book while he criticized society’s patterns towards everything that took place in history. Somehow the writer has succeeded in linking together past and present and misconceptions of time. If we are open to the potential of how art and literature develop together, then we might be able to see how the concept of palimpsest that Orwell used in 1984 will have the chance to meet with an artwork from Contemporary art and develop together. That’s how we see Eda Soylu’s Colored Blocks for Adults and Orwell’s Palimpsest take on this particular and peculiar intersection point. While Soylu’s work reinterprets this concept, it invites adults to a new game.
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Colored Blocks for Adults, is a game to make us remember and reinterpret what we remember and already know. Somehow, Soylu opens the gates to discover what has happened in the past. She puts colored blocks on our way and lets them shine to enlighten the history and what we have recalled of it. Once again, the viewer becomes aware: Not everything is as it seems. As we tend to discover the past, we return to ourselves and discover ourselves. In a way, Soylu uses the concept of palimpsest in a very poetic way. The renewal stage makes much more sense as we become aware the first idea of this artwork came in 2014. The exhibition is a series of ‘poesie’ on how it is possible to think and comment and recreate the past again. The artwork renews itself, moves with society, changes within time.