Emre Hüner
Emre Hüner | Turkey b.1977 | Panoptikon (still) 2005 | Digital hand-drawn animation, single channel, continuous loop, colour, sound, 11:18 minutes, ed. of 5 | Image courtesy: The artist and Rodeo, Istanbu
b.1977 Istanbul, Turkey
Lives and works in Istanbul, Turkey, and Milan, Italy
Emre Hüner works across various media, including drawing, video, animation and site-specific installation. Hüner crafts intricate and luminous drawings which are rendered with the colour and precision of miniature paintings. Interested in the intersection between systems of control and social structures, his imagery is drawn from a range of historical sources including scientific journals, medieval bestiaries, warfare, technology and medical practices. For APT6, Hüner presents Panoptikon 2005, an animated film which assembles his archive of densely layered illustrations. These images are grouped into narrative sequences which juxtapose the natural world with the machinations of a constructed, imagined universe. Images of phantasmagorical cityscapes, machines that continuously work with no functionality, and sites of decay are accompanied by a lush musical score. Our relationship to the environment is a consistent point of inquiry in his practice and propositions about human progress and intervention in the natural and constructed world are brought together in his finely crafted, multi-layered, hand-drawn animation.
Exhibitions (solo): BAS, İstanbul, Turkey, 2007. Exhibitions (group): ‘The Generational: Younger than Jesus’, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, United States, 2009; Manifesta 7, Trentino, Italy, 2008.
