PUFF

İnci Furni presents fragile and ephemeral relations between everyday objects and situations abstracted from all sorts of classifications and causality. Creating a visual world in which various mediums such as painting, sculpture and installation interpenetrate, the artist’s practice gives substantial importance to the method of setting up games, and opening up a playful sphere of experience. Furni frequently resorts to play to break free from the monotony of reality, emancipate thought, and discover new potentials of form and display. For instance, “Now! A big, black balloon will burst. Air will escape from it. A grey mass / will remain intact. The bird perched on the metal bars above will not fly off. Its shadow will be bigger than itself,” she will tell herself. Then, this playful idea will begin to migrate towards different mediums, colours, and trials with forms and dimensions. Her work "PUFF", made of polyester by the artist in 2010 for the "Second Exhibition" at Arter, is a black balloon losing air. Just as in cartoons which depict moments frozen in time, the balloon is seen delicately suspended just on the verge of deflating – with its form still intact, and not being swayed in every direction. This interrupted explosion implies unfulfilled expectations and undoubtedly points towards a personal or social emotional state.