«Fourth Eye, 4.40 AM»
Ceylan Öztrük

The room is very dark.
The music is very loud.
There is a bright LED panel at eye level, on which videos are shown.
Some of the videos are disturbing.
The performers are dressed entirely in black, and their faces are covered.
Music and light change quickly.
A fog machine is used.
At the end, there is a longer blackout.
In one scene, a performer vomits.
There will be streaming at some point.
There is a mannequin in the room, wearing the same costume as the live performers.
The performers move around the space and may sit close to the audience or look directly at them.
No interaction from the audience is expected.

The play is about different spaces.
There are real spaces and spaces in the mind.
These are ideas or imaginations.
Or different sides of a person.

In this play, the artist shows:
How does one feel inside?

This is what happens in the play:
It is early in the morning, 4:40 a.m.
One person becomes many people.
The people can change.
This is sometimes confusing.

The play feels like this:
Like when you are just waking up or dreaming.

Ceylan Öztrük lives and works in Zürich. She completed her practice-based PhD (2016) in Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University (Istanbul) that she initiated her subject in Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna at Post Conceptual Art Practices in 2014. She received her graduate (MFA-2011) and undergraduate (BFA-2006) degrees from the Fine Arts Faculty, Sculpture Department at Anadolu University. In 2022, she received Swiss Art Award. Some of her solo/group exhibitions and performances are Wearing the Angles, Kissing the Room, Gessnerallee Theatre, Zürich (2023), Sculpture Garden, Geneva Biennial, Geneva (2022); Self-specular, a moment, Galerie PhilippZollinger, Zürich (2022); Matter of non, FriArt Kunsthalle Fribourg, Fribourg (2021); Orientalien, Gessnerallee Theatre, Zürich (2020); Am a Mollusk, too; re/producing tangents, Longtang, Zürich (2020), IV. Berliner Herbstsalon, Berlin (2019); Oriental Demo, My Wild Flag Festival, Stockholm (2019); Call me Venus, Mars, Istanbul (2016).

City of Zurich Culture, Ernst and Olga Gubler-Hablützel Foundation, Ernst Göhner Foundation, Dr Georg and Josi Guggenheim Foundation

The programme focus ‘(Un)gentle Learning’ is supported by the Ernst Göhner Foundation.