Zaynep Kaynar: SAPP (Sleeping: A Performative Process)
Zaynep Kaynar: SAPP (Sleeping: A Performative Process)
Mar
07
Thu
16:46 – 16:46
-6–-4°C
clear sky
7.3.—31.3.2024
Avajaiset / Opening 7.3.2024 18:00-20:00
Since 2018, the SAPP (Sleeping: A Performative Process) project dives into the world of writing, seeing it as a vital tool that links our minds and bodies in a holistic way. In this project, drawing takes center stage, acting as an early form of writing with a function similar to studying language through gestures in the context of visual literacy.
Unlike written language, where letters might lose their meaning across language barriers, visual language rises above cultural and linguistic differences. At the beginning of the SAPP, the artist created a unique set of alphabetical system derived from body movements during sleep.
Inspired by ancient alphabetical systems and the typographic interventions in the public places in Finland, the artist has been creating artworks using the SAPP alphabet aiming to document abstract thinking process and narrate unpredictable personal events such as moving to a new country, integrating into a new society, battling with financial fluctuations and unemployment while trying to adapt to a new culture, and learning Finnish.
The artworks of this series, presented with a subjective narration of sleepless nights, were on display in exhibitions between 2021-2023. In this exhibition at Myymälä2, Zeynep Kaynar challenges herself to reconsider the narrative potential of the series to produce site-specific artworks at the gallery space.
This exhibition is supported by Fat Lizard
Thu 07 Mar 2024 – 31 Mar 2024 Closed today

-6–-4°C
clear sky
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