Nil HasBrandon Hendrick “Transience” Exhibition
Brandon Hendrick’s “Transience” exhibition continues at Collect Gallery until September 23.
Transience is an exhibition of paintings. Every painting has a photo beginning. The series created by the artist consists of a view taken from inside a train and glass and door symbols. We can see two symbols in paintings. We asked the artist questions about his first solo exhibition in Turkey, Transience. You can see Brandon Hendrick’s “Transience” exhibition, curated by Mina Asena Öztürk, at Collect Gallery (Karaköy, Istanbul) until September 23.
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How would you introduce yourself to Turkish art lovers?
I am a Glasgow based artist whose work explores the uncanny found in everyday experiences. I paint from observation and from photographs.
Where is the starting point of the Transience exhibition? Does the whole adventure begin inside the train?
Yes, the Transience exhibition begins and ends inside the train. I want to depict the landscape as viewed from inside the train.
What was your period in the preparation process of the Transience exhibition? I think that in the transition from photography to canvas, we do not see every painting as in the photograph. What do we see on the canvas different from the photograph? Is it the reflection of a photograph on the canvas that we see? Is there fiction in the pictures?
The photographs are deliberately taken to be used later as material for a painting. When painting a photograph, I start by drawing an outline loosely based on the photograph onto the canvas. I use this process to filter a real space through subjective depictions, first through a deliberately composed photograph and then through the act of painting, in order for it to become an imagined space.
We see 2 symbols in your images. Door and window. What do these symbols mean to you? How do the same symbols shape your understanding of art?
I view all art as a window into another space. We look inside it just like we look into a window. To me looking into a window is like looking at a painting because they are both flattened spaces that you are looking into.
We see a style that goes from photography to canvas. This makes me think that you are a detailer on archiving. How do you approach making archives, mixing archives and creating works for today? Will a new exhibition emerge from your photo archives?
When preparing for an exhibition I take pictures on my phone that can later be used for paintings. I store them on my phone while I’m working on the series and I usually delete them once the series is done. I’m currently working on a series based on UFO sightings. I am interested in exploring similar themes in the context of how people who believe they have encountered a UFO would interact with that memory and that landscape.
