Direniş / Resistance

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The artist creates a fictional universe that touches on the urbanite—a recent subject of the artist’s work, one she frequently scrutinizes—and their relationships with themselves, with “the other”, and with nature in today’s world. The subject, handled here with an interdisciplinary approach, appears to involve futuristic elements. These are actually meant as a manifestation of the current day. They contain slivers of small current day stories conveyed to us through the artist’s works, stories that belong to the artist as well as all of us.

The artist attempts to focus both on the urbanite’s solitary being and their presence and psychology within society in our current chaotic and fast-paced epoch. Multi-communicative in social platforms yet solitary among the crowds, the urbanite defines themselves through their self-created ideal persona. The piece aims to tell their experiences through short moments and passing thoughts. The artist attempts to take this current day individual who is alien enough to not recognize the oldest of living species, unretentive enough to instantly forget the greatest disasters, and apathetic enough to never understand the experiences of “the other”, and at the last moment place in front of them another individual who is in touch with the nature as well as their own nature. This individual who attempts to re-contact the fauna and the flora may once again find themselves through earnestness and self-reflection. For all these reasons, the subject of being alienated from oneself and one’s environment, the concepts of observing and being observed, and ambiguous communication and contact form the conceptual basis of the piece. According to the artist, contact, ironically, now only occurs by way of observing “the other” through an interface. The use of door peep holes provides a contemporary and quotidian representative figure for this interface. Additionally, the individual in search of their habitat, as well as animals whose nature and genetics have been disrupted, the concrete generation, the current day so-called heroes and political impositions by those in power which have affected every aspect of our lives all become involved with the pieces through experimental and instinctual approaches.

The artist simultaneously attempts to create in her work a perception of the “past” and the “future”, which allows her to tackle various contrasting concepts such as the contradiction between “overly familiar” and the “unknown”, as well as the relationship between “the natural” and “the artificial”, and “truth” and “fiction”.

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