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Artworks
Leyla Yenirce
Rhythm of the Night IV, 2023Oil, acrylic spray, oil sticks and silkscreen ink on canvasSigned and dated verso200 x 230 cm
78.7 x 90.6 inchesB-LYENIRCE-.23-0037The large-format painting 'Rhythm of the Night IV' shows a grid-like sequence of a monochrome screen print motif. Fragments of a photograph that appears on the canvas show the outlines...The large-format painting "Rhythm of the Night IV" shows a grid-like sequence of a monochrome screen print motif. Fragments of a photograph that appears on the canvas show the outlines of two women with machine guns held aloft, as if ready to resist. This is an image circulating on the web of a group of young female fighters from the Kurdish Women’s Protection Unit (YPJ) huddled together and discussing military strategies at a training camp near Qamishli, Syria. In "Rhythm of the Night IV", Yenirce appropriates, alienates, and samples this photograph almost beyond recognition, superimposing it and even sabotaging its visual impact with hastily applied, electrified strips of brightly colored oil pastels, paint, and acrylic spray – like an emotionally driven smear attack against the interpretive sovereignty of the image.
Yenirce plays with the effectiveness, instrumentalization, performance, and commodification of a journalistic image, and it is tempting to draw analogies between this canvas and Andy Warhol's grainy silkscreen series Death and Disaster (1962-1968).Exhibitions
Leyla Yenirce, Ich krieg Geschwindigkeit, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, 2023
Leyla Yenirce, Ich krieg Geschwindigkeit, Capitain Petzel 20233of 3