Servet Kocyigit. Truth serum

Volume published on the occasion of the exhibition “Servet Kocyigit. Truth serum”, by Silvia Cirelli, Yards of Image, Milan, 27 November 2014 – 7 February 2015.

Born in '71 in Kaman, a town in Central Anatolia, Kocyigit grew up during the third military coup, one of the darkest periods of recent news. As he himself states, "My adolescence was not marked by the fun choice of the latest fashion hair or by the competition to the most impractical padding on the shoulders", on the contrary, the 80s symbolized the need to find one's own identity and to understand, as much as possible, the controversial cultural reality he witnessed. "We wanted freedom" continues the artist, “But we didn't know what this really meant, it took a long time to understand it e, if I succeeded, I certainly owe it to art ".
Art therefore becomes for Kocyigit the "word" with which to express oneself freely, the tool with which to tell the fractures of one's generation, the sense of uprooting and the ever more evident awareness of a vulnerable and precarious reality.
Servet Kocyigit captures the collective memory, to then return it to a new metaphorical dimension, where the fragile balance between perception triumphs (understood in its sensory and emotional connotation) and conception (rather more objective processing). The truth, initially explored in its tangibility, it is inevitably manipulated and altered, orienting the debate towards the search for a fiction and a disillusionment.
Taken from the text "Waiting for the deception" by Silvia Cirelli