Time Must Change: Cao Fei, Nilbar Güreş, Raqs Media Collective

The Time Needs Changing exhibition questions our perception of time, controlled within a geopolitical context. The three artists featured in the exhibition present a perspective beyond the conventional understanding of linear time imposed by many systems today. The works of Cao Fei, Nilbar Güreş and Raqs Media Collective suggest alternative and parallel ways of engaging with life to break free from the constraints of limited time perception. The exhibition contains different fields of thought on the concept of time through drawings, videos, photographs, installations and new media works by artists from three different geographies: China, Turkey and India. Time is only one of the subjects in the works of these three artists in the exhibition. However, all three produce works that can help us understand not only our relationship with the external world, but also with ourselves. While Nilbar Güreş questions the straight line of masculine time, Cao Fei offers us the possibility of having more control over our time in a world where reality and virtual reality blend together. In the works of Raqs Media Collective, which relates the concept of memory to different experiences, time gains freedom. The Time Needs Changing exhibition calls us to engage with time not as a measure of our rapidly passing time, but as a way of understanding ourselves.