Time Capsules series, sculpture, 2021-2024.
Time Capsules are a series of non-idolic sculptures made from scratch or onto commonplace replicas that are found quite inexpensively in thrift stores. The artist uses papier mache, mirror tiles, transparent inks and varnish to create rustic retro disco balls of her own shape that sit on the ground and that can be sat on. The disco balls do not rotate. They are vaults with varying themes.
Dance Vocabulary, performance, 2018-2024.
Dances to be repeated, each with a different set of principles to allow for improvised variations. Accompanied by a warm-up, an affirmation, a grounding and a cool down, with bells between intervals. Each for a specific affect.
Curator’s Room, installation, 2014-2017
Curators Room is an installation project for which curator and art residency director Pırıl Gündüz allocated one room for her curatorial practice with each group exhibition that took place in 17 rooms of 5-floor The Hollows townhouse, and in and out of the building, with different themes in each iteration in relation with the group exhibition themes. Four walls were set for her processes of Research, Hypothesis, Display, Left-overs and included books, stationary, art, personal items, furniture, placed in relation, documenting and opening a glance to her artist residency curatorship in NYC where she also lived.
You and us at 30m, sculpture, 2012-2017
The sculptural molds are taken of people and objects, in places she knew she visited for the last time and stretched using elastic cords in entanglement with each other.
Study of a face at 30m, 16mm film, 2012
Shot on Bolex on 16mm analogue film, Study of a face at 30m is a stop-motion of an oil painting, expressing the journey of a face in 30m, the length of the film strip itself.
Pearl Necklace, short film, 2012
In a static one take, an actress is left to act before, during and after an exploitive shot.
Schizoanalysis series, video art, 2010-2017
A montage of User-Generated-Content from YouTube with original voice-over, Schizoanalysis, a concept of philosophers Gilles Deleuze and psychoanalyst Felix Guattari. videos creates a mockumentary anthropology of contemporary beauty practices, in which the oppressed is the oppressor as well as the representation. Schizoanalysis is a concept of Gilles Deleuze and psychoanalyst Felix Guattari.
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