About

Artist Statement

My artistic exploration is primarily centered on two themes. Firstly, it captures my love for nature and the moments it creates—my deep affection for life and my admiration for the art inspired by it. This interest manifests in my use of natural elements such as light, water, and wood as artistic materials, as well as in my active engagement with exhibition sites outside the traditional "white cube." My work is often in flux, transforming and expanding its narrative through its relationship with these spaces. In this way, nature—the environment around me—becomes an essential component of my practice.

Secondly, my artistic exploration also focuses on making visible the point at which life and death constantly intersect. This point is expressed through metaphors and symbols, or it gains physicality through the taxidermy of intangible moments—moments that may seem trivial but are precious and beautiful precisely because they will one day be gone. The artistic visualization of this threshold allows me to emphasize the value of life rather than becoming preoccupied with the inevitability of death. This concept is especially realized through the superimposition and fusion of photography and video: photography freezes a moment in time, while video breathes life into it. In that sense, one could say that in my work, photography represents death, while video represents life. Given the historical and medium-specific context of photography, this idea is not particularly surprising.

Furthermore, this fusion of images is primarily expressed through projections onto objects that I create and repurpose as materials—broken, ruined, and discarded objects that have already served their purpose. These include wooden planks from old shelves in my house, iron and wood scraps left over from school renovations, old metal racks from my father's laboratory, and countless boxes abandoned on the sidewalk each day. The main reason for using these materials, of course, is that they are discarded fragments of a person’s or a building’s history—objects that have "died"—which ties directly to the themes I seek to explore in my work.

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