GUIDED EXHIBITION TOUR, "Inside the Cistern", Artist: Özge Topçu

Hypercube Space is happy to host "Inside the Cistern" exhibition created by the multimedia artist Özge Topçu.

In this art event, we are inviting you to see the exhibition and experience the interactive digital artworks by the guide of the artist.

In her exhibition ‘Inside the Cistern’, Özge transforms her art studio into an underground water reservoir in an experimental way. To do so, she transports virtually a cistern from the historical area of Istanbul to the centre of Lisbon.

Inspired by a historical cistern in Istanbul, Nuruosmaniye Cistern, which Özge became familiar with whilst making a site specific installation in early 2022, ‘Chamber’, she found that the sensory characteristic was very similar to her studio in Lisbon (Hypercube Space).

In the exhibition we find the digital artworks which extends artist's work into different senses and their digital embodiments. Connecting with her last artistic medium research into digital art, NFTs and the metaverse, she experiments with visualisations of different perceptions. Özge's approach is similar to synesthesia and in this exhibition she plays with a variety of scents, notes, sounds, visual illusions, perceptual biases and memories to alter our perception of space and time.

Event Details

Free entrance

Free wine and beer will be served.

July 7, 2022, Thursday, 6PM - 8PM

Hypercube Space, Rua Almeida e Sousa 40 B, Campo de Ourique, Lisbon

About Artist

Özge Topçu, born in 1987, lives and works in Lisbon and Istanbul.

She is known for her large-scale installations that resonate with architecture and reveal the dynamics of the urban and psychogeography. She is inspired by history, architectural elements, and the positive sciences. Recently she started to create big scale and digital installations in Virtual Reality. She combines real places with digital 3d artworks.

She is a grant 2019 recipient from Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. In 2018 she was nominated for MAC Ulster Bank International Art Prize in the UK and participated in Art Night London 2018 with her project “Agora”. She has taken part in several solo and group exhibitions in Istanbul, Berlin, London, Belfast, Amsterdam and Lisbon.

www.ozgetopcu.com

About Hypercube Space

HyperCube is a non-profit experimental art space founded by artist, Özge Topçu and takes its purpose and identity from her art practice. It is dedicated to curating and hosting projects that further understanding the relationship between space, science, and sociology. It is an open and transparent project space for trans-disciplinary activity and aims to build institutional engagement with non-institutional actors. We are open for project proposals from makers, thinkers, artists, and scientists year-round.

www.hypercubespace.org