The duo show titled "Chimera", consisting of Martch Studio productions of Zeynep Beler and Ekaterina Gerasimenko, guest artists of Martch Art Project's third edition artist-in-residency program located in Ayvalık, meets the audience at Martch Piyalepaşa location. Taking its name from the mythological creature "Chimera", the exhibition refers to "a stretch of hybrid output, two people living and creating in tandem" for the artists, among its many meanings, and conveys the harmony developed among the artists and their synergy starting from their first exploratory trips.
"The outside world thus somewhat muted, we worked and ruminated together on the art practice, our individual productions and methods, books, movies, history, and various chimeras - of imagination, of the histories of our respective countries, of our own creation. To take a break, we would walk around Ayvalık, literally and figuratively turning over stones and wading into the surf, activities that to me recalled the idle days of my childhood summers on the Aegean coast. The totally visceral experience of the Aegean summer - the rhythms of the sea, fragrant hills buzzing with bug music, and serpentine topography - has always had a way of plugging my consciousness into something greater and more timeless than my current reality, as it must have those of the Aeolians, Mysians and Lydians who told stories that our civilisations’ narratives are founded on to this day."
