Hale Karpuzcu’s show in Şişli

ISTANBUL

Türker Art is welcoming Hale Karpuzcu’s first solo exhibition, “Little Human.” Karpuzcu’s works primarily focus on the “child,” and the present exhibition features a child in different images, some of them depicting him targeting a huge rat with a toy gun, wearing a tiny luxury outfit with diamonds and fur or suffering from wounds incurred from the bullet of his toy soldier. The artist aims to question the conception of a child in a society, pointing to the awareness of the “human being” between childhood and adulthood. “Although a child wants to exist as an individual, society carves out a specific role for him in which he is ‘constantly’ made to be the ‘little human’ of the elders,” Karpuzcu said. “A child’s life is like a ride between dreams and reality. This ride between the two worlds can be enjoyable but painful, especially when he is obliged to travel down the real path. Unfortunately, no one seems to remember that he is just a child. As a result, he’s no longer the ‘little human.’”
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