Mustafa Horasan's exhibition titled "Control Room" is being showcased at the Millî Reasürans Art Gallery from September 5th to October 11th, 2007. A book has been prepared for the exhibition in both Turkish and English.

With the exhibition "Control Room," Mustafa Horasan takes the audience to two different worlds: one being the world of everyday life he witnesses in the external world, portrayed without any manipulation through video, and the other being the fantastical world crafted by Horasan, depicted on canvas.

While in his previous exhibitions, the artist utilized images captured by others, in this exhibition, he presents photographs taken by himself for the first time, using the inkjet printing technique. Regarding the convergence of works that embrace manipulation (canvas) and those leaving no room for manipulation (photographs), Horasan states, "Previously, I emphasized what I wanted to show. Now, images that capture moments, freezing them in time, have been added. The impact of life on us, reflected in the works through the process I defined related to situations we influence or change, creates a mechanism of control by highlighting some and retracting others, arranging related ones side by side."

The exhibition, as evaluated by Levent Çalıkoğlu, holds a significant place in the artist's career within the context of a painter whose work revolves around image creation grappling with his own history, discovering himself to the extent of alienation, reconstructing his style, and reimagining the images stored in his memory.

Mustafa Horasan occupies a unique place in Turkish art with his questioning attitude towards humanity's harsh and wild relationships with nature and other creatures, how evil embeds itself within humanity, the helplessness of memory and body in the face of evil, the existence of irrational contamination in every field, the twilight era where everything becomes uncertain, the dissolution of humanity, the helplessness, transformation, and questioning of pain by the body. While portraying this external "reality" through a wide range of image-figure worlds on canvas, he presents them with a striking, distinctive "candor, fear, constriction, helplessness," thereby also questioning his position and role as an artist within this reality, focusing on a problematic in almost every exhibition, thus constructing his own history. In the presentation text of the exhibition, according to Levent Çalıkoğlu's evaluation, "What distinguishes Horasan from the artists of his generation is his approach to the problem of figures with a pornographic harshness. Although this harshness manifests itself as a hunched, upside-down, prosthetic integration of bodies, this approach is at the level of meaning."

In his exhibition at the Millî Reasürans Art Gallery, Mustafa Horasan reimagines new forms of expression, such as interventions made on digital prints he captured himself, re-establishing mutated bodies from early paintings linearly, and making the artist's graphic-based text-image unity more pronounced, thereby questioning the relationship between his personal artistic history and today.

Mustafa Horasan's exhibition at the Millî Reasürans Art Gallery can be visited from September 5th to October 11th, 2007.