Vorfreude

Art is a space of encounters—of textures and absences, of memory and reinvention, of what is lost and what is yet to be found. In Vorfreude—a German word evoking the joyful anticipation of what is to come—Gamze Yalçın and Gastón Lisak engage in a visual dialogue where color and form, object and illusion, coexist in a delicate tension.

Gamze Yalçın’s work is a meticulous investigation of space, color, and landscape, an active dialogue between nature’s shifting forms and the artistic process itself. Her canvases pulse with the harmonics of color, capturing the essence of fluid terrains, atmospheric transitions, and ephemeral light. The movement within her work reflects a deep engagement with the resilience of nature and its continuous transformation. Beyond canvas, her explorations extend to paper and textiles, constructing layered visual narratives where semi-abstract forms merge with the textures of the organic world. Each piece, whether expansive or intimate, is an invitation to step into a landscape that exists somewhere between the physical and the imagined.

Gastón Lisak’s artistic practice unfolds as an archaeology of the overlooked. Flea markets across the worldc, Els Encants in Barcelona, El Rastro in Madrid, the Lagunilla Market in Mexico City become his hunting grounds, where objects, once cherished and then discarded, find themselves in a state of flux. These artifacts—shoes, amulets, statues, stuffed animals—carry the weight of their past lives, marked by discontinuous and crisscrossing lines of economic, symbolic, and affective value. Under Lisak’s meticulous eye, they are archived, recomposed, and elevated into a new poetic existence. His works do not merely display objects; they animate them, giving presence to the mundane soul each item carries. Like the Wunderkammer of the 19th century, his collection becomes a speculative space where memory, materiality, and transformation intersect.

Together, Yalçın and Lisak’s works form a landscape of dualities, ephemeral yet enduring, structured yet fluid, personal yet universal. Their pieces do not impose a narrative; rather, they invite the viewer to step into the in-between, to explore the tension between presence and absence, between what was and what could be.