Alkan Avcıoğlu

Manufactured Transendence

*Manufactured Transcendence* provokes a confrontation with the new age of spiritualism, offering no easy answers. The works create a paradoxical view of modern expectations in this realm, blurring the lines between past and present, superficial and revelatory, devout and detached. Each artwork is a web of allegorical intricacies and carefully crafted dissonance that compels an investigation into the motives and authenticity of its subjects. 


The detailed works in this series invite us to explore the rich and often contradictory landscapes of contemporary spirituality, in an age dominated by consumerism, hedonism, and superficiality. Each piece features the complex visual approach common to Avcıoğlu's work, merging elaborate and expansive multilayered scenes that challenge the viewer's perception of spirituality’s intimacy. The implied stories within each artwork therefore function as visual riddles where the sacred and the commodified collide, challenging the viewer to untangle the strands of genuine faith from the convenient tapestry of mass-produced belief. 


*Manufactured Transcendence* ultimately explores spiritual commodification both as a modern phenomenon, and as a continuation of the historical patterns in religious practices that remain susceptible to cultural and economic forces. This context deepens the critique within this series on the commercial and mass-produced qualities that seem to persist around spiritual practices intended as a means of true transcendence.

Manufactured Transendence

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