The artist’s work, centred on a piece of wood she encountered during the YASME programme, encapsulates this natural found object, which has evolved into a unique formation over time, within a glass prism. Through this intervention, the object is stabilised and exposed to uninterrupted observation. The triangular prism shape resembles the roof of a house. Observatories are architectural structures designed to observe and study natural phenomena across various disciplines. The installation offers viewers a similar silent observation experience. The object, whose past is known only by its current location, has had its future shaped to a certain extent by external intervention. The work questions humanity’s conscious or unconscious impact on nature. Nature, which has the power to renew itself, has faced a lot of damage in recent years. The installation’s confinement of a natural object has both separated it from its nature and isolated it. The human mind, which tends to categorise in order to understand, has prioritised knowledge and pushed inner experience into the background, especially since the Enlightenment. While progressing in the material world, we have regressed in the spiritual realm. The connection between this situation and both existential and environmental challenges is emphasised.
Observatory, Wood, Glass and Found Object, 54×69.5×34 cm, 2025
The Cage, 2024
With the anthropocentric (human-centred) view, human beings have become alienated from their environment. Individuals in society now behave in a much more capitalist, utilitarian and otherising manner. They display these attitudes towards each other and their environment. However, humans who are proud of their reason have a great responsibility: To protect and defence their inner nature and the outer nature. The fundamental problem arising from the rupture they experience, compresses them into visible and/or invisible cages. And it makes them more and more vicious day by day. The Cage, made with branches found in nature, leads the viewers to go inside and question themselves and their surroundings from there.
The Cage, Branches and Steel, 80x100x170 cm, 2024
Installation- Interactive Art
Inner and Outer is an installation work that deals with the main contrasts we experience as humanity by associating it with nature. The branches represent the external world concretely, intertwined and integrated without the need for any material. The drawing of the branches is another reality of it, observed and transferred with charcoal on paper with the impression it creates in the inner world. The two representations complement each other. This holistic approach questions the separation of the inner and outer nature of human beings.- 2023
Inner and Outer, Branches and Mixed Media on Paper, 80 cm and 140×149 cm, 2023
Installation Art