All images courtesy of GNYP Gallery.
Bringing together Richie Culver and Umut Yasat for the first time, this duo exhibition—The Path of Least Resistance—at GNYP Gallery Berlin seeks to define the concept of time. At first sight, the contrast between the two artists in this show could not be bigger, however, the questions their work surrounds serve to unite them.
The clash of different time registers—public and private, canonical and conventional—coalesces in Culver’s canvases. What comes out of it, though, is anyone else’s guess; the time we need to see these works and the time we need to comprehend them is different. What does that tell us about our economy of attention?
Umut Yasat, in turn, approaches the matter of time and the dynamic between the public and the private via a different set of tactics, which raises other questions and problems as well. Yasat’s outcome instead tells us nothing about his process—specifically, about the time he spends in each individual work. What do we see when we look at his strange sculptures?
The Path of Least Resistance is on view through July 28 @ GNYP Gallery, Knesebeckstraße 96 10623 Berlin
