Gate 27, farklı pratiklerin araştırma ve üretim süreçlerini desteklemek ve disiplinlerarası etkileşime zemin yaratmak amacıyla 2019’da kurulmuş bir uluslararası konuk sanatçı programıdır.
Gate 27, farklı pratiklerin araştırma ve üretim süreçlerini desteklemek ve disiplinlerarası etkileşime zemin yaratmak amacıyla 2019’da kurulmuş bir uluslararası konuk sanatçı programıdır.
Ekin Kano graduated from Yıldız Technical University with a photography and video major. She then went to Den Haag Royal Academy of Art as an exchange student. She received her M.A. degree at Sabancı University in Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design.
Exploring the blurriness of the limits between humans and non-humans constitutes the main axis of Ekin Kano’s practice. Depicting the body as an unidentified and limitless structure, Kano’s paintings propose other possibilities of materiality for the existence. Inspired by the theory of evolution, natural history and medical illustrations, she creates organisms with non-human body shapes which examine the infinite possibilities of forms that living beings can embody. Appearing fleshy and alive at first sight but having the immobility and stillness of a rock, these organisms manifest in enigmatic bodies that are left between living and non-living creatures. In order to emphasize the limitless and displaced character of these bodies Kano places them in endless and timeless landscapes. Approaching the process of painting as an alchemist, Kano produces her own painting surfaces by using old methods instead of industrial materials.
Her works related to the questions of Anthropocene, the theory of evolution and natural history have been shown in group exhibitions in Istanbul, Los Angeles, Zurich, Paris, Belgrad and Wintherthur.
