Solo Exhibition

JOINT VENTURE

ZAFER AKŞİT

21.06-17.08.2025

Fırın

Joint Venture traces the entanglements of individual action, collaboration, and social structures, and reveals how seemingly autonomous gestures are bound up in systems of negotiation, cooperation, and synchronization.

As the latest in a series of works centered around individual action and its often-imperceptible effects, the pieces in Joint Venture delve further into the impossibility, or even futility, of a purely insulated private experience.

You won’t always get what you want (but again, you just might) presents a space where a visible message remains curiously out of reach. As the audience engages with the piece, their movements enter into a delicate interplay—revealing how individual intent can unwittingly disrupt clarity. What begins as a straightforward path becomes a site of tension between personal desire and self-obstruction, inviting participants to reconsider the role of others in realizing what initially appears to be a solitary aim.

Adapt, Adjust, Assimilate, features a group of metronomes arranged on a shared movable platform. Initially ticking out of sync, they gradually fall into alignment through the physical phenomenon of coupled oscillation. Each metronome exerts force upon the platform, which in turn transfers those impulses to its companions—causing them to slow down or speed up in response. The resulting video captures the emergence of tension-born harmony: a choreography not of command, but of proximity and shared condition.

Accord Visualized is a series of prints derived from the audio track of Adapt, Adjust, Assimilate, translating the ticking rhythms that echo through the exhibition space into a visual progression—charting the movement from dissonance toward collective coherence.

Together, these works form a dialogue on the limits of autonomy and the often-unseen forces that shape our efforts to act, connect, and comprehend. Joint Venture proposes that it is precisely within the tension between self and other, between control and surrender, that new forms of relation can emerge.

Poster Design: Cem Yönetim