Erkut Terliksiz's fifth solo exhibition "The Transience of Life" to be held at x-ist, encourages the audience to search for the surreal both through his use of material and its beneficial defects as well as intertwined forms through his instinctive pictorialness.
The amorphous human and animal forms in Erkut Terliksiz's paintings which at first make you think that you are face to face with a sympathetic expression open the door of a wilder and more frightening world which evokes different feelings and drives when examined. Through found materials and the working process allowing their accidental results on alternative surfaces, the artist actually makes the audience part of the story that he started out in order to see different things and partly go beyond reason. In his paintings in which a simplification is noticed compared to his past works, one feels the contrast between the background and the figures at first glance.
"There are confusing and even some destructive issues regarding my painting. The point in question is that a weird story much more beyond than what you think you saw confronts you. It is quite important how the figures look like at first glance, how they evolve in time and what they turn into by fragmentizing and merging again, and that in the end this process leaves an impression that arouses interest, makes the audience question what they saw and even touches the stories remained hidden in their mind... The change that this impression creates in the audience's feelings in the same way evolves according to what they see at first, what they find and what they lose."
- Erkut Terliksiz