Performance Installation 2023, im Rahmender Ausstellung. “Die Befreiung der Form. Barbara Hepworth“, Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg, 2.4.-20.8.2023 Kuratorin : Jessica Keilholz

Ekici's new performance "Cohesion patterns_Pierced Form" is inspired by the sculptures of sculptor Barbara Hepworth. Not only the wild and vast landscape of Cornwall, where Hepworth grew up, but also the ancient megalithic cultural artifacts in Cornwall have been sources of inspiration for the artist's works. Her sculptures consist of abstract, organic, airy, arched and curved forms with wooden spaces and punctures. She was the first artist to use this technique of pierced form cavity, hole). She refined some of her sculptures by adding strings (ropes) to them. Characteristic is also her play with contrasts: light and dark, solid and openwork, convex and concave. In her performance, Ekici works on an abstract-organic wooden sculpture that is reminiscent of forms by Barbara Hepworh. Ekici's sculpture is larger than life and has many holes about 10 cm in diameter. With a 50 cm iron needle and a 200 m long rope, Ekici starts to sew her sculpture with the rope. She pulls the rope again and again through the different holes. More and more the sculpture with the rope condenses into one unit and gives the sculpture an additional stability. Ekici works on the sculpture multiperspectivally from all sides. Ekici works with the piercing of the sculpture as well as with the rope, elements that Hepworth uses again and again in her sculptures. Ekici works with the piercing of the sculpture as well as with the rope, elements that Hepworth uses again and again in her sculptures.

Skulptur mit Plattform; Metal-Nadel, 50 cm; 200m Seil, Kostüm

2,5 h

Kamera und Editing : Branka Pavlovic; Videostill: Branka Pavlovic; Photos: Andreas Dammertz; Produktion und Konstruktion: Jesper Niemann; Metallnadel: Werner Mohrmann-Dressel; Kostüm Design: Nezaket Ekici; Kostüm Schneider: Süleymann Danke an: Dr. Söke Dinkla, Jessica Keilholz, Nina Hülsmeier, Anne Groh und dem Team vom Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg; Jesper Niemann, Branka Pavlovic, Julian David Bolivar, Sülyelmann, Werner Mohrmann-Dressel, Andreas Dammertz, Marianne Dammertz, Roger Hüser