x-ist is hosting the photographer Lale Tara’s 2nd solo exhibition between September 10th and October 19th.
After her solo exhibitions titled "Alive" (Bilsar, 2006) and "Hello Earth Goodbye" (Bilsar, 2007), the photographer Lale Tara met the art-lovers at x-ist with her exhibition titled "Doppelgänger (RUI)" in 2009. The artist, who has been exhibited in different cities all around the world, such as Strasbourg, Hong Kong, Basel, London, Bombay, Taipei, Singapore, Dubai, and Tokyo, presented her recent series "Innocent Surrogates" in the photography section of Istanbul Modern Museum in 2011.
Lale Tara opens her new solo show "Everyone Carries a Shadow" at x-ist. The shooting of the twelve photographs that made up the series took place in different, abandoned spaces in Hungary. The scenes, written and directed by Tara, are constructed by human sized plastic surrogates. Through this replica, which appears as a manifest of her secondary existence, Lale Tara touches upon the interaction between the different artistic media and deliberately distorts the indexicality of photography.
The photographs of Lale Tara, which discuss the wishes and fears that women repress due to the societal pressures, referencing various literary works, invite the audience for an introspective look, also referring to C. G. Jung's Doctrine of "the shadow of human" which suggests that the repressed does not disappear; but stays hidden in a part of the psyche called "the shadow". Via displaying everything regarding women that has been denied so far, these rebellious figures we see in the photographs - different representations of the "shadow" - challenge the strict constructions of femininity.