Gürseler’s art is an interface for every viewer: a concretization step to look consciously at their unconscious. His paintings are a guide to self-understanding / interpretation. A guideline to being able to tell new lies to ourselves. And all numbers in this directory are each time, a call to ourselves. Some painters make self-portraits, Gürseler’s paintings are auto-calls. A map of generating new lies in one’s search for self. An attempt of the consciousness to give a consistent meaning to the inconsistent unconscious. Gürseler describes the abstraction of the unconscious with concreteness that can be translated into consciousness, whereas every interpreter of translation analyzes this inscription differently. While each code can be broken in Gürseler’s work, one has to encode new passwords to all of them. This map does not show what exists like geographic maps but implies. It’s based on opinions, not facts; here, a person does not open, but rather closes to him/herself. S/he narrows infinite possibilities with his/her consciousness. Definition limits the existing by reducing it, and Gürseler’s paintings allow to enframe a person. One has to demote in order to know oneself. Gürseler brings this degradation together with the widest pool of possibilities. The rest depends on the imagination and courage of the viewer. It is not Gürseler who narrows the possibilities, but the viewer…