Entropy

Diren Demir

Technik: Entropy is a term of thermodynamics and astrophysics. The entropy of an object is a measure of the amount of energy which is unavailable to do work. Entropy is also a measure of the number of possible arrangements the atoms in a system can have. In this sense, entropy can be understood as the measure of uncertainty and/or randomness. It is the increase in the disorganization within a system. According to the law of entropy, everything that loses it's heat, stops working. In Diren's point of view, this law can be related not only to concrete objects and living things, but also to the abstract world and human relations. Birds, pictured with mold emerging from various expired materials speaks of this Entropy law which causes nothing in the universe to go the way as we planned. Diren uses the poetic simplicity of these various images that evokes despair, past memories, broken relationships, or giving up. With the same technique, the artist talks about the abstract world of the law of entropy, presenting the moldy portraits of their ex-boyfriends explaining forgetten memories. Diren had to live in his grandmother's garage at the age of 17 due to their family's homophobia. Artist consider this as their very first exile. Many of Diren's works were getting moldy due to the humidity inside of the garage. So artist then started to use mold itself as a material. Artworks in the exhibition are not only paintings but constantly changing motifes. Entropy still continues on the moldy surface of the images, thus it presents a durational form of art and directly archives the elapsed time itself.
Maße: 60 × 80 cm
Typ: physisch
Ausstellung: LASTSTADT

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