Berke Yazıcıoğlu: Helix

Dirimart is pleased to announce Helix, the second solo exhibition by Berke Yazıcıoğlu with the gallery. The exhibition centres around the animations of the artist unfolding across the walls of the exhibition space, interweaving a range of concepts, from natural cycles and planetary movements to digital surveillance systems and the boundaries of privacy.

Positioning the viewer as both observer and observed, the installation interrogates – through a striking visual language – the state of uninterrupted control generated by contemporary technologies. Through the combined force of music and drawing, Helix redefines the modern human experience under the governance of time and technology.

At the core of Yazıcıoğlu’s multifaceted practice, which spans painting, drawing, textile, and animation, lies the communicative force of drawing. Merging his background in visual communication design with the conceptual depth of fine art, the artist examines the image’s capacity to transmit ideology and to reinforce or unsettle social structures.

Designed as a multimedia installation, Helix explores circular motion as a shared structure of both natural and man-made systems. Analytically engaging with the ‘Lever du Jour’ (Daybreak) theme from Maurice Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé, Yazıcıoğlu maps the melody onto a trigonometric plane. This construction features a mechanical spine and rotating clock-like structure that evokes the circadian rhythm. Sketches, diagrams, and circular musical staves positioned at the centre of the space trace connections extending from harmonic sequences to planetary orbits. Within the exhibition space, the music functions as a continuous motor for the space, determining its rhythm through a circular, helical movement. The dominance of blue tones and darkness reinforces associations of mystery, abstraction and distance. The animations and surrounding paintings explore themes of privacy and control. Through handdrawn scenes featuring surveillance cameras and binocular-bearing figures, the audience experiences both the surveilled subjects and the act of watching simultaneously. The all-seeing eye produced by technologies such as big data and social media are presented as a collective practice of self-spying.

Bringing together Berke Yazıcıoğlu’s recent analytically and visually driven investigations into musical structures, technological cycles of control and the mathematics of circular motion, Helix will be on view at Dirimart Pera from 12 March to 26 April 2026.