Alkan Avcıoğlu's first solo exhibition in Turkey brings together 20 large-scale prints made through a multi-stage process with AI models, in which the single viewpoint of the photograph gives way to shifting scales and perspectives.
The title refers to Roland Barthes's 1967 essay The Death of the Author, which removed the author as the final authority over a text's meaning. Here the same question is turned towards the camera and its authority over how a photographic image is built. Conditions long tied to the camera, such as a single viewpoint or a stable scale, no longer hold.
Alkan Avcıoğlu develops each work in several stages with AI models. Scales and perspectives run into one another, and familiar spaces become layered and unstable, so that the prints read less as a single view and more as a space to move through over time. The exhibition rests on his view that the complexity of the present can no longer be held within one perspective.
Presented with DIFOART, the exhibition opens Maçka Art Gallery's 50th anniversary season. Rabia Çapa and Varlık Sadıkoğlu founded the gallery in Istanbul in 1976; it is now directed by Didem Çapa.
Born in Turkey in 1982, Alkan Avcıoğlu works with AI in both images and film and has a background in film criticism and music. His collaboration with Edward Burtynsky, Hypertopographics, is a finalist for the 2026 Lumen Prize and will be shown at the Troy Museum as part of the Çanakkale Biennale. Post Truth, his AI-generated feature documentary, premiered internationally at the Warsaw Film Festival and has since screened at more than 25 festivals. In 2025 his work was included in Christie's first auction dedicated to AI art. He lectures on AI and the moving image at Istanbul Kent University.
