SELF PORTRAIT, 2023 “Amidst any kind of destructive experience that disrupts the natural flow of life, the source of strength to rise again lies within us. This source, a mystery even to the person themselves, becomes apparent only when we dare to gather the scattered pieces of our mind or soul and accept the new…
BLAH BLAH “Blah Blah” addresses the predictable cycles of reactions that have become reflexes over time, both conceptually and physically. This work, which allows only circular motion in accordance with the nature of the cycle, basically invites us to show a reaction aimed at breaking cycles. The moving part is a trigger for the viewer…
MEMORY TRACE “Memory Trace” mentions the concepts which are common shame and pain of the humanity. It is about the memories that cause our familiarity with these concepts. It points out to the relationship of “past-now-future” and “Me-others”, explicit or implicit myths of the story which we were born into, our inherited memories. The petrified…
REMEMBER “Remember” is a kind of abacus that I tried to express my direct or indirect experiences about this period* which equalized all of us with a common concern. Beads with numbers and marks lined up on wires are the symbols of my own experiences on one hand and reminders that make the viewers think…
41 As in some cultures, in Anatolia, people believe in the power of good energy-laden breath as they believe in the healing and protective power of words, colors and numbers. Today, still, many people make various charms, amulets or talismans by using such elements for good luck or protection against bad luck. This work is…
PUPPET SHOW Don’t speak! Speak! Laugh! Cry! Go! Come! Sit down! Stand up! Think! Don’t think! Eat! Leave! Look! Kill!…. It is a puppet show. Women, men, children… all of us in a big game at a huge stage. None of us are really free. Do we need a real scissors? Is there anyone who…
HARD AS COTTON In a huge uncertainty that coincident with my 38th age, an effort to find a remedy for the distress that increases from day to day, avoiding to get lost in waiting that like a big black hole. I had to wait. When I was waiting… touched the colors, just played a game.…
DEEP INSIDE OF ME “Deep inside of me” is a collection inspired by patterns and poems of Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu, the famous Turkish painter and poet. My ultimate desire for this collection is to say something beyond our body: the physical form of existence, something about our soul and our spiritual scars caused by various…
I AM JUST THINKING This work basically asks some questions. Don’t we actually let the pain arise and grow in ourselves? Do we get hurt because we allow various reasons or others to let us suffer? The answers are as diverse as the people existing all around the world. Still, the clue to the answer…
DESPITE “To keep going despite all the unexpected, compelling and hurting struggles, storms of life, to choose to keep going… and to believe in hope and its glittering existence…” “Despite” is a projection of the sentences leaked into my soul through the book called “The Dispossessed”* during the time when I was struggling to find…