Akhan describes his artistic practice as a constellation of meanings emerging through fictional narratives. In his works, the meaning that lies behind the frame and the image comes into being through the act of looking; it is reproduced through the viewer’s gaze. Silence is disrupted, and meaning continues to multiply and recur. What remains indistinct in one painting may occupy the center in another. An image placed in emptiness simultaneously evokes absence. The inside of the frame begins to relate to what lies outside it. What is reproduced becomes singular. Detached and confronted on the surface, what remains there multiplies through the gaze that meets it. Through objects and images suspended between presence and absence, the artist sustains a personal narrative.
His works often appear as series that include paintings, drawings, image-based works, and three-dimensional pieces produced through different techniques and materials. These series unfold like fragments of endless stories—shifting and evolving parts that attempt to grasp a larger whole, repeatedly resurfacing through new images.
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