![]() When at their centers, a participant becomes the focus for the uniquely encompassing impression of sound that the modified drums, when played in the space, produce. ![]() Daf without Skin and its magnified counterpart, Larger Daf without Skin, retain their source’s circular form and, nearly floating, become akin to halos waiting to be donned. Erek’s works subvert this mode of teasing tone from the instrument, and are created without drumheads: Here, they are suspended by barely visible cord, thus redefining and rebalancing the connections between action and interaction, noise and motion, or response and its prompt. Held in front of a player’s body, gently supported by their palms or thumbs, the daf gains its distinctive rustle from a series of rings that rub against or bounce off of the drum’s stretched membrane as it is manipulated or struck. The three in-dialogue works, developed in collaboration with instrument maker Sami Hosseini, derive their general constructions from the eponymous frame drum. ![]() The exhibition’s trio of Daf without Skin (2021), Larger Daf without Skin (2023) and Ruler Daf without Skin (2021) originate from Erek’s extensive work as a percussionist and the resultant deeply engrained attunement to instruments, their employ and their particularities. For in circulation, the artist presents a concise group of works that reflects upon sound as lived sensation and its profound physical manifestations. In his work, Erek engages with the broad spectrum of interfaces between tone, space, perception, reception and time, applying his extensive backgrounds as an architect, educator, musician and sound engineer and designer to rhythmically draw out parallels through site-reactive installations and sonic environments. Neugerriemschneider is pleased to present our first solo exhibition with Cevdet Erek, opening at our Linienstrasse location for Berlin Art Week and the fall edition of Gallery Weekend Berlin.
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