Animation Film by Şevket Akıncı and İlhami Tunç Gençer

Location: Ioakimion Girls High School

15.11.2024 – 30.11.2024

A human being has many souls and consciousnesses throughout his/her life.

The transition from the physical to the spiritual is what makes this happen. The body is the soul, and the soul is the body, no matter how much our soul insists it’s a unique phenomenon with its existence. So, all things that are “one” and all things that are not one are born from the circle of one. Fear is part of the fearless, loneliness is part of the crowd, power is part of the powerless.

Artists Şevket Akıncı and İlhami Tunç Gençer draw a self-portrait of a moment in life by including all reflexive elements into the work without avoiding spontaneity. Just as Şevket Akıncı’s music breathes life into İlhami Tunç Gençer’s experimental animation, Gencer’s animations offer faces, bodies and eExpressions to Akıncı’s compositions.

İlhami Tunç Gençer

was born in Istanbul in 1984

He completed his secondary education at 50. Yıl Tahran high school and studied Graphic Design at Haliç University. The artist made retrospective screenings in Turkey and abroad, organized a joint exhibition with international surrealist groups, and finished his first feature-length animation work, “Love.”

Şevket Akıncı,

was born in 1972 in Turkey

He is a guitarist, composer, arranger, and improviser. He studied composition at Berklee College of Music.As a songwriter, after his album “Uçurumda açan” in 1996, he moved from traditional jazz (neşet ruacan trio), free improvisation and free jazz (wet dog, century, dead country, holy ghost) and fusion (lifeline, weed) to Turkish art music (electronic kumpanya) and many other genres,He took part in projects (Şirin Soysal, Ruşen Alkar, Öykü Aras, albums, Mugwump, Sputnik Sweetheart, Mutant, Konjo) that blended literature, dance, cinema, architecture, theater, plastic arts, painting and many other art branches with music.