Ceylan Öztrük
Inseama

29.3. – 3.5.2026

Exhibition Opening with Performance
28.3.2026, 6 pm (Performer: Saskia Kaiser)

It is a being made of seams that moves slowly, fluidly through the space, like an amoeba.¹ Its form is constantly changing. Inseama is the seam and the back side of the seam. It is sordid—or seamy; its black swallows up the contours, but it is not uniform. It is an “abject”. It is polypous, formed of countless body images—and their shady or seamy sides. Dressed, layered out of tailored trousers: dark, staid suit trousers. It doesn’t know how it is supposed to wear them, how it should arrange itself, how it should behave. The Wesen² (or being) grapples – with the material, the patterns, the forms, with the institution.³

Inseama is a process, a sculpture in a thousand frames. The being made of seams consists of forms and norms, of fashions and eras it has assimilated. It has its own orientation, creates its own space for itself. Trousers become corridors, portals, octopods. They were worn countless times, taken on and off. They have formed, normed, disciplined, represented bodies—silent witnesses of the past.

Once bound to tailored fits, structured by the pattern and the seam—real and imagined bodies, institutionally organised. The seam as a closure—shut and exclude. Inseama, however, opens up, layer by layer.

Skinned trousers on the wall. Unstitched seams, flipped open. More precisely: opened along the inner line—from the inner side of the ankle to the inner side of the thighs up to the crotch – that intimate and particularly sensitive zone. Every pair of trousers carries history. We see dress patterns, needles, large pockets like dark caves—the interior life, like fragments of a diary. Hidden memories appear—trauma, paranoia, dogma, insomnia, inseama. We can glean only a sense.

The seam as a line, the seam as border, the seam as a membrane, the seam as the horizon in the white cube. The horror vacui is black. We take the plunge—follow the material’s movements and currents. We are entangled. We are observers and participants who glide along the seams and pleats, from the outside to the inside and back again.

Inseama is a noun and an adjective. Inseama is a container and its contents.

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1  Amoebae (from Greek amoibe, the changeable one) can constantly change their
external body shape by continually forming plasma appendages anew.
2  Old High German: wesan (existence, being, dwelling).
3  Latin: institutum (establishment, arrangement, decree).

Text: Holger Otten

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