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Mixer is pleased to present the exhibition 陌艧ler De臒i艧ti / Change of Plans, curated by Cemre Ye艧il G枚nenli, as the third edition of the LENS series, which started in 2019 and this year it focuses on photography, featuring the works of 12 young artists.

陌艧ler De臒i艧ti / Change of Plans curated by Cemre Ye艧il G枚nenli, brings together the works of 12 young artists around the theme of post-pandemic blues. The photography exhibition addressing the changing and transforming social psychological state and its aftermath on the younger generation in the post-pandemic world, is opening on 5th of March 2022 in Mixer. 陌艧ler De臒i艧ti / Change of Plans meditates on the speed and sorrow of the current post-apocalyptic yet ordinary era, which we abruptly found ourselves unable to hug each other, to be identified via QR codes at each door, terrified by death and loss rooted in a dark and unfamiliar anxiety, and perhaps in which we all survived by drowning in ourselves.

The exhibition, far from documenting the environmental aftermath of the pandemic, tries to understand the psychological and emotional dynamics of the outbreak through the notions of unexpected and sudden decisions, failed plans, isolation, future anxiety, and obscurity. The exhibition re-contextualizes the artists鈥� independent visual bodies of work produced during the pandemic within this curatorial framework and it aims to create a collective narrative while inviting the viewer to question where they stand in and how big of a part they play in this collective memory. Bringing together the works of artists residing in and outside of Turkey from the same generation, the exhibition echoes a universal depression that felt so common for the first time, and traces the stories and personal experiences assembling a collective expression. By deep diving under the water, touching the surface of it and finally breathing outside, 陌艧ler De臒i艧ti / Change of Plans researches the impacts of the wave that struck exactly two years ago in March. On the other hand, in this post-pandemic world, the exhibition mourns the evolution that is felt within the bones of humanity, perhaps for the first time. Although we neglect the fact that the world resources are draining away, we perhaps feel it as a fatigue in our souls in a fragment of time that make us prefer to break o铿� from the real world, in which the internet expands as a three dimensional space; our necks bowing down to screens, 陌艧ler De臒i艧ti / Change of Plans reminds us that there are still things worth looking and seeing in the real world.