Looking for the Warm Spot in a Swimming Pool

Mustafa Boğa, in his solo exhibition titled "Looking for the Warm Spot in a Swimming Pool" which spans two floors of Kun Art Space, focuses on the intricacies of the modern world's mechanisms. In a domain characterised by the perpetual generation of images, Boğa adeptly seizes upon intricate details, thereby illuminating the spheres of the collective subconscious embedded within the manifestations of the material world. Specifically, he reflects his connections and interactions with the climate and texture of Adana, his hometown, and the Mediterranean region, on a three-dimensional canvas. This reflection is akin to strolling into everyday life and the urban streets. He offers a renewed contemplation of images that might appear familiar from encounters elsewhere. Boğa weaves the images extracted from the mundane, a complex and contradictory somehow continuous entity encompassing every facet of human existence, onto the fabric of his work.

Adding a touch of surrealism to certain images, he unveils a unique approach to life. He endeavours to prevent the transformation of the ever-changing into the mundane in our daily existence. He subtly suggests that there may be uniqueness inherent in what is commonly perceived as ordinary. He contemplates that this dynamic not only enriches our existence within the world but also significantly shapes our engagement with it. However, this perspective doesn't gravitate toward a fetishistic regard for objects or images. It's neither about assigning excessive importance nor rendering them devoid of value. What's being woven here are compelling, occasionally jarring encounters. It's the way details manage to strike a chord.