Zeren Goktan: Breadzone

Breadzone, Zeren Goktan’s most recent production, is a digital animation that has been developed from a digital painting of a stack of molding bread in the early stages of decay. Presented as a double projection in Platform’s gallery space, the two zones of Breadzone appear simultaneously on opposite sides of the gallery space forming moments of balance, dialogue and contrast.

The animation starts from a single point on the original image, randomly selected by a specially composed computer program. The focus then travels across the picture, zooming in and out from one level of intimacy to another, while all the time the bread is slowly degrading into an unidentifiable mass. The original overview of the bread is almost impossible to identify in either of the two projections, because the relayed data never follows the same route, or starts out from the same place. The textures blend and merge, in colour and form, to depict a terrain both familiar and acutely solitary. What was once a real micro-environment launches into an intangible mass of camouflage that could be understood as a vast landscape. Taken back to the intimate, it hints at military costume and warfare. Breadzone is the first in a season of fast-paced successive solo presentations at Platform.

Breadzone is the first in a season of fast-paced successive solo presentations at Platform.

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Zeren Goktan: Breadzone