Servet Koçyiğit’s second solo presentation at Rampa, This is My Island, marks a new phase in the artist’s practice and features his latest collage, video and sculptural works made in the last three years. The autobiographical terrain suggested in the exhibition title points to the initial stage of Koçyiğit’s recent engagement with the methodology of mapping, of attempting to understand the world around him through the act of surveying, measuring, marking, tracing and collating information. The artist’s commitment to charting new territory signals a shift in artistic language, and taking the idea of mapping in its broadest sense, initiates a personal investigation into limits, borders crossed and obstacles that await.
"This is my island" will be on view at Rampa Istanbul through April 18, 2015.