How about encountering a new perspective in the world of art? Artist Metin Özgör traces deep philosophical questions in his works. In his three-period work “LIMITS, LAWS, CONCEPTS”, he examines the chaotic nature of life and the difficulties of coping with the unpredictable potentialities of existence.

Özgör explores how the world built by cultural habits, laws and concepts also affects people. He thinks that each concept and law has a rigid structure both in the physical world and in the emotional world. According to Özgör, the disconnect between language and nature, society and law, science and myth in modern society turns people into rivals and potential enemies. In the middle of this disconnect are our interconnected but limited lives and concepts.

In idealized designs of abstract forms, the artist shows a hierarchy of boundaries and rigidity. But this rigidity leaves the subject of existence incomplete and imperfect. As with the subject in Kafka’s works, people become victims of the order that constructs them, and this is due to a symbolic power.

Özgör’s works, like the classical logic of abstract art, represent a plastic idealism that has no other referent but itself. But this idealism is infiltrated by the inevitable irony of nature and changes over time.

Metin Özgör’s exhibition “BORDERS, LAWS, CONCEPTS” is on view at Cihangir Little Art Gallery until May 15. This exhibition invites you to explore the permeability of the sharp lines between organic and inorganic, abstract and figurative.