In her installations “İlk Ev” (the initial home) and “Leia” which will be exhibited in Alan İstanbul, Seçil Erel takes apart the subjective experience that interferes and guides the canvas from within, back and beyond and she separates the layers of perception and of life which get in, over and behind our view and she reshapes them in time and space. Whilst accenting our personal choices of existence via art terms, she reconsiders the light, the translucent that form the opaque, the non-horizontal course of rows which were shaped in horizontals and which connect to one another side by side, aligning in the front and at the back and she rearranges them in the gallery space in two related yet different ways.
“İlk Ev” is a canvas-space artwork that provides an experience of space that orients the now to be an up and forth look towards and in the space; the space that it was born in and to which it gives birth. “Leia”, on the other hand, is a canvas-object arrangement that emits the light that makes us visible to our own selves, as in the direction pointed out by “İlk Ev”, the light that we deserve to wait for and which we perceive the moment we are born.