Burak Kabadayı

Burak Kabadayı (1989) is an artist based in Istanbul. Kabadayı focuses his art practice on the production and consumption of energy as well as movement, which he explores through various media such as video, sound, and installations employing a range of materials. His interests lie in creating environments through structures that interact, exchange and evolve over time, either naturally or artificially, reconstructing the possibilities of coexistence and disappearance, and challenging ways of perception. 

He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts in 2014 and has since continued his master's degree. His last solo exhibition “Static Shifts, Dynamic Rifts” was held in 2021 at AVTO in Istanbul. Kabadayı has also participated in several group exhibitions, including "Metamorphoses from Causal Relations to Indexical Signs " (Sanatorium, Istanbul, 2022), "A Stranger Eye" (Nilüfer Sanat, Bursa, 2022), "Kök" (Santralistanbul, 2018), "To See Nothing" (Alt Art Space, Istanbul, 2017). In 2017, Kabadayı participated in the exchange program, "From the Beginning" organized by the Istanbul Biennial, Liverpool Biennial, Protocinema.

Network-Attached Polarized Landscape

Network-Attached Polarized Landscape aims to re-construct a space that was temporarily adopted by analysing its physical and environmental factors. Here, space is understood not only as what exists on the surface, but also as a whole that contains all interactions within that space. This proposal expresses the fact that the space is a constantly changing structure and that these changes are connected to perceptual experiences. Within this framework, transformations undergone during the process of working on the borders and potentials of the space are treated as the problematics of this construct.

In the early phases of the work that began as a space-based research, the aim was to remove the existing surface and discover the voids beneath the surface, the movement caused by these voids and the interaction between traces left behind by movement. However, changes, setbacks and related ambiguities led to a deviation in the course of the structure: the transformed context paved the way for the structure to be researched in a series of new spaces, different materials and alternative forms of presentation.

The work seeks to deal with these potentials in an open-ended manner, evolving towards a format that can adapt itself to different fields. The elevated extendable conveyor that allows for an amorphous installation, enables the discovery of the new possibilities of the present surface and an experience of the fields of interaction in the space. In this context, the mapping study, which is part of the installation, transforms into a type of landscape, suspended in mid-air, visualizing the complexity and environmental interactions of spaces via grid systems and network simulations.