The Right to Flaw exhibition, which is the output of Asst. Prof. Dr. Emre Doğan's productions made with graduate students in the spring semester of the 2021-2022 Academic Year, is available online.

Asst. Prof. Dr. Emre Doğan, head of the Department of Radio, Television and Cinema at Istanbul Gelisim University (IGU), Faculty of Fine Arts (GSF), brought the "Between 17.30-19.40" exhibition together with art lovers as a result of the productions they made together with graduate students in the fall semester within the scope of the 2021-2022 Academic Year. After the success of the exhibition, this time the Right to Flaw exhibition, which was created by bringing together the works done in the spring period under Doğan's supervision, was opened to access.

Emphasizing the concepts of flaw and illusion while expressing the beginning of the exhibition, Asst. Prof. Dr. Emre Doğan stated that the exhibition emerged as a result of six months of work and that it is a condensed, online version of the original exhibition composed of 160 photographs. Emphasizing that "The Right to Flaw" is a collective work inspired by Baudrillard's concept of 'illusion', Doğan added that its publication in a-part.online, the official publication of the Apart Art Association, is another factor that makes the exhibition special.

Exhibition Manifesto: What is Illusion? What is a Defect?

What is illusion?

This concept can be defined as 'illusion' with an effortless effort. Our senses get impressions that can be misjudged. A nuisance to be avoided, a disadvantage, and/or a frenetic game.

Baudrillard uses this term extraordinarily often, constantly talking about 'art losing its illusions'. The loss of art's power to create illusions: The aesthetic deflation of the 'art object', which is perfected, purified from its flaws, and calculated like a mathematical operation by considering it like a chessboard. An intervention in the artistic nature of the 'thing', which is now just a phenomenon, an image or an object. Deprivation of the right to fault the work of art.

What is a flaw?

A defect is simply a 'lack'. The creative component of all 'things' is the play of the culture that is built with the necessary void that forms the wall, the error in the nature of things, the demoralization. It's the lack! The deficiency is in the essence of man. The fault is in itself.
It creates the illusion of imperfection. If illusion is the life force of the work of art, fault is its necessary confusion. According to Baudrillard, we cannot be confused because there is no illusion of the work of art anymore. This is the disappearance of the path from the eye (look) to the brain (imagination) in the perception of the work of art, the blockage of the path that art opens from the 'a posteriori' to the 'a priori', the separation of these two.

In this exhibition titled 'The Right to Flaws', 'photography' as a branch of art has been tried to be expressed in many genres and sub-genres: architecture, portrait, minimal, self-portrait, nature, abstract, street, abandoned space and nude. The aim is to avoid the perfect photo, to create confusion, to produce studium works. Aesthetics is in the background, meaning is in the foreground.

All of the photographs featured in this exhibition were produced with digital cameras or smart phones, regardless of the model or brand. No computer-based manipulation was involved, and no 'post-intervention' was made to the photographs. The produced photographs were printed, the print was scanned, and the photographs were made ready to be exhibited. In this exhibition, an analogous field of vision and thinking was tried to be opened - desperately - in a digital cosmos.

All the photographs exhibited are works with 'flaws' and the illusion created by the flaw, which is the human dimension of the work of art, is targeted.

Click to view the works in the exhibition.

Congratulations to Asst. Prof. Dr. Emre Doğan and his students.