Born in 1990 in Uşak, Talip Keser graduated from the Painting Department of Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University Faculty of Fine Arts. Practicing art for nearly twenty years, he gained an interdisciplinary perspective in his early years through training at the workshops of Emin Özdemir and Orhun Kara. Since 2014, he has continued his production at his studio in Uşak, developing a distinctive voice in the contemporary art scene.
His works have resonated widely on international platforms. In 2022, he participated in major art events such as the Beijing Art Biennale (China), ArtShopping Fair Carrousel du Louvre (Paris, France), and Spectrum Art Fair (Miami, USA). In 2023, he exhibited his works at prestigious events including UNFAIR Art Fair (Milan, Italy), Clio Art Fair (New York, USA), and The 100th Anniversary Art Exhibition GB Art Gallery (New Jersey, USA). In 2024, his solo exhibition titled “Sürç-i Lisan” at GB Art Gallery (New Jersey, USA) reinforced his strong presence on the international stage.
Exhibition Text: Melike Bayık
A Walk Through the Rooms of the Heart
In Talip Keser’s exhibition “The Rooms of My Heart,” the canvases appear not merely as images to be viewed, but as abstracted sketches of inner geographies. Each painting in this exhibition offers, rather than a room, a direction, a compass, an inner orientation.
Keser’s approach represents an understanding that questions the formal boundaries of contemporary painting and places subjectivity at the center. Fundamental plastic elements such as color, line, and space transform here not only into formal tools but also into intuitive mapping instruments. Color represents the frequency of emotion; line conveys the direction of movement; space embodies the silent yet profound resonance of memory. Each composition is an abstract projection of a mental space—a visual notation of remembering, feeling, and reconstructing.
In this sense, Keser’s paintings can be read as a kind of emotional cartography. Every mark and line on his canvases is a trace from childhood, a layer left by growing up, or a momentary deviation where imagination transforms into visualization. Maps and urban abstractions in this exhibition serve not merely as conceptual propositions but as tools of formal tension and narrative. The “rooms of my heart” Keser refers to are, in fact, boundary zones between consciousness and the unconscious. Each painting proposes not to get lost in this boundary, but to find direction.
His statement, “infinity begins within us,” signifies not only an individual quest for freedom but also an aesthetic approach where the visual language is deconstructed and its boundaries expanded. There are no figures here, yet the absence of figures is not a lack; it is the subjective anatomy of internalized spaces. Each work functions like a topological deformation—a private street, a map reshaped and twisted according to the emotional contours of the individual.
In Keser’s compositions, lines carry a sense of direction rather than serving as fixed boundaries. Colors represent rather than depict a region. Spaces are left not to be described but to be filled intuitively. In this sense, the viewer is not merely someone looking at the image but a traveler who completes the missing parts of the map with their intuition. Each painting is an open-ended route, perhaps not a space, but a state of mind.
Approaching from the general to the particular, it becomes clear that this exhibition is not a self-portrait, but a diary of inner experience. Talip Keser communicates as much by what he hides as by what he reveals. Every layer on his canvases is both a disclosure and a cover for something else. This multilayeredness transforms his painting from a purely aesthetic domain into a temporal, psychological, and almost architectural structure.
“The Rooms of My Heart” is a narrative where individual memory intersects with aesthetics, introspective yet open to the outside. Through his canvases, Talip Keser sketches the rooms of his own interior, inviting viewers to probe their own inner maps, paths, and routes. Each painting is a direction; each direction, a new question… Perhaps the exhibition truly begins where these questions echo, offering everyone a symbolic key to explore and create routes from one end of the map.
Talip Keser | Acrylic on Canvas
200 x 200 cm
Born in 1990 in Uşak, Talip Keser graduated from the Painting Department of Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University Faculty of Fine Arts. Practicing art for nearly twenty years, he gained an interdisciplinary perspective in his early years through training at the workshops of Emin Özdemir and Orhun Kara. Since 2014, he has continued his production at his studio in Uşak, developing a distinctive voice in the contemporary art scene.
His works have resonated widely on international platforms. In 2022, he participated in major art events such as the Beijing Art Biennale (China), ArtShopping Fair Carrousel du Louvre (Paris, France), and Spectrum Art Fair (Miami, USA). In 2023, he exhibited his works at prestigious events including UNFAIR Art Fair (Milan, Italy), Clio Art Fair (New York, USA), and The 100th Anniversary Art Exhibition GB Art Gallery (New Jersey, USA). In 2024, his solo exhibition titled “Sürç-i Lisan” at GB Art Gallery (New Jersey, USA) reinforced his strong presence on the international stage.
Exhibition Text: Melike Bayık
A Walk Through the Rooms of the Heart
In Talip Keser’s exhibition “The Rooms of My Heart,” the canvases appear not merely as images to be viewed, but as abstracted sketches of inner geographies. Each painting in this exhibition offers, rather than a room, a direction, a compass, an inner orientation.
Keser’s approach represents an understanding that questions the formal boundaries of contemporary painting and places subjectivity at the center. Fundamental plastic elements such as color, line, and space transform here not only into formal tools but also into intuitive mapping instruments. Color represents the frequency of emotion; line conveys the direction of movement; space embodies the silent yet profound resonance of memory. Each composition is an abstract projection of a mental space—a visual notation of remembering, feeling, and reconstructing.
In this sense, Keser’s paintings can be read as a kind of emotional cartography. Every mark and line on his canvases is a trace from childhood, a layer left by growing up, or a momentary deviation where imagination transforms into visualization. Maps and urban abstractions in this exhibition serve not merely as conceptual propositions but as tools of formal tension and narrative. The “rooms of my heart” Keser refers to are, in fact, boundary zones between consciousness and the unconscious. Each painting proposes not to get lost in this boundary, but to find direction.
His statement, “infinity begins within us,” signifies not only an individual quest for freedom but also an aesthetic approach where the visual language is deconstructed and its boundaries expanded. There are no figures here, yet the absence of figures is not a lack; it is the subjective anatomy of internalized spaces. Each work functions like a topological deformation—a private street, a map reshaped and twisted according to the emotional contours of the individual.
In Keser’s compositions, lines carry a sense of direction rather than serving as fixed boundaries. Colors represent rather than depict a region. Spaces are left not to be described but to be filled intuitively. In this sense, the viewer is not merely someone looking at the image but a traveler who completes the missing parts of the map with their intuition. Each painting is an open-ended route, perhaps not a space, but a state of mind.
Approaching from the general to the particular, it becomes clear that this exhibition is not a self-portrait, but a diary of inner experience. Talip Keser communicates as much by what he hides as by what he reveals. Every layer on his canvases is both a disclosure and a cover for something else. This multilayeredness transforms his painting from a purely aesthetic domain into a temporal, psychological, and almost architectural structure.
“The Rooms of My Heart” is a narrative where individual memory intersects with aesthetics, introspective yet open to the outside. Through his canvases, Talip Keser sketches the rooms of his own interior, inviting viewers to probe their own inner maps, paths, and routes. Each painting is a direction; each direction, a new question… Perhaps the exhibition truly begins where these questions echo, offering everyone a symbolic key to explore and create routes from one end of the map.
