“Fırat İtmeç, in his solo exhibition titled "Art, Love, and Crises of Existence," which serves as a continuation of his previous exhibitions, offers an autobiographical experience that invites the audience to his most intimate moments. The exhibition, where we encounter various personas of İtmeç, begins at a threshold where a pair of eyes observes from a distance. Through these observing eyes directed at the artist’s workshop, the artist reflects his existence in a manner that does not delineate the boundaries of his privacy.
On the wall, paintings inspired by an American poster from the 90s, which was a symbol of societal imposition, occupy their place. İtmeç, who critiques the imposition system, conveys his protest in a way that suggests it has become the norm today. "The artist" confronts us with the reality that we are not free even between two walls. The perception of being constantly obliged to produce transforms into an existential crisis, suggesting that "if one could truly be ‘alone,’ these crises could only be existential." He presents various consequences of society's unbearable constraints imposed on the individual, using open-ended metaphors.”
