'TV Show' is a timely retrospective of Ozlem Akin's vast collection of extraordinary work. Exactly two decades of her works will be on display at Found Object. There could not be a more appropriate artist to showcase here than the veritable mistress of found objects. This exhibition also coincides with Ozlem's fortieth birthday.

While her work has always spoken of the human condition, many of her later pieces are concerned with deconstructing our own self perpetuating myths of the identity.

For example, in her TV piece 'Resolution' we see thirteen mouths (reminiscent of Samuel Beckett's 1973 play 'Not I') screaming from a Cronenbergian television set come bubbling to life, or else in its death throws. This is an intimate poem writ popular. But why the TVs?

In Ozlem's exhibitions we are always treated to a new 'TV' piece. This is her stop motion nod, freeze, nod, freeze, wink, nod to her university days studying 'Film & TV'. Four of these hollowed out TV sets actually house intricate, early film sets of her own design.

Adult visitors respond to Ozlem's work like giddy children who's teacher has just told them the class is outside in the playground today.

That is to say, that despite the underlying Godardian references and philosophical and scientific word play of her objects' titles, one is confronted with a Satori moment of detached attachment when face to face with her numerous, hand made, other worldly creatures.

In Jean-Paul Sartre’s novel 'Nausea', Antoine Roquentin, experiences his first major, conscious onset of his existential condition when he picks up a pebble at the seashore.

Ozlem invites us to the seaside and encourages us to explore, touch and feel.

Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of wunderkammer wunderkind Ozlem Akin who promises to fill her/our next two decades with even more honest, nervous, fun, bold, horrifying, surprising, exciting art full of hope, truth and a deep seated love of all things new, 

especially if they are old.

Text by Michael J. Rowland