Across the Line

Across the Line exhibition, created through the interaction of 12 artists from different disciplines brought together within the two-week AltCity Istanbul Residency Program realized in collaboration between British Council and Digi.logue, under the leadership of UK-based digital art group SquidSoup; a group exhibition featuring mixed media, installation, code, light, sculpture and mechanical elements.

What lies beyond the line?

This exhibition transforms the traces left by technologies in their interaction with physical objects and different disciplines into art objects; it addresses the discovery that emerges when drawn boundaries are crossed. Across the Line combines the experience of Istanbul's chaotic urban structure with physical structures and advanced technologies; through concrete installations, mechanical structures and digital surface distortions, exploring a new sense of balance and harmony created at the foundation of all this construction. To create this collaboration and harmony, stepping beyond their own lines and into the lines and intersection points of others, Producer Andrew Barlow and vocalist Louise Rhodes from Lamb took their first steps into the music world with a 6-album deal with Mercury Records in 1995. The duo, who released their self-titled debut album in 1996, achieved their real breakthrough with the track "Gabriel" from their third album "What Sound".   Contributing to their popularization by being played in the backgrounds of different media such as Guinness advertisements and the Tomb Raider: Underworld video game, the artists drawing inspiration from creating a utopia of a cognitive living space, as evidenced by Henryk Górecki's 3rd Symphony titled "The". Numerical values embedded in tangible objects, electrical currents, light fragments, mechanical structures and sounds; prompt reflection that the utopia of creating one's own future can only emerge from a collective consciousness, and its only path lies in the stretching and transparency of lines between concepts. Each work tells its own story around this utopia, inviting dialogue with the viewer, intersecting with their lines and drawing them into its own domain.