17 May Fear

Beksultan Oğuz’s exhibition, constructed through ceramics, painting, video and installation, focuses on individual and social fears. Rather than a psychological, physiological, cognitive feeling or emotional experience of fear, the artist explores the effects of the experience of fear in political, social and cultural life practice. The experience of fear is an element of power under the control of the powers that be, enabling and suppressing social segregation. However; this experience has created socialisation and collective life. Inspired by the rituals of primitive societies in the face of fear, the artist shows the relationship between the agent and the passive of fear and the violence it causes, sometimes through symbols, sometimes through humour and cultural codes.

The artist, who prefers to include the art receiver in the production process, presents the works produced in the ceramic workshops he organised in Izmir and Istanbul in cooperation with various non-governmental organisations before the exhibition as an installation.

17 – 31 May 2019 

Curators: Safiye Aksu, Serra Rodoplu

Workshop Participants:

Aslı Kuban, Barış Azar, Cenk Gökhan Karataş, Ebru Atilla Sağay, Ebru Yalkın, Efe Kılıç, Elif Togay Tunç, Ersoy Çınar , Ezgi Ceren Kayırıcı, Gizem Erkal, Gizem Özkan, Gülennur Çaylı, İmge Dağlar, Manolya Sönmez, Melike Tufanyazıcı, Neslihan Yalman, Özgür Uçurum, Pelin Güney, Salih Altuğ Çelik , Sevgim Ahıskalı, Tuğçe Düzenli, Yusuf Ak, Zeynep Hazal Dokuz, Efe Kılıç

About the artist:

Beksultan Oğuz (b.1980, Kunduz) completed her undergraduate education at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Ceramic and Glass Design in 2007 with first place. In 2010, she was accepted to Yeditepe University Plastic Arts Department Master’s Programme with a scholarship. In 2005 – 2006, she studied in Designskolen Kolding, Denmark for one year. While in Denmark, she worked as an assistant at Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Centre for two months and participated in the Storytelling & Poetry Symposium. In 2008, she participated in artist Jorgen Hansen’s 3-week Firingsculpture project (Arhus, Denmark). She participated in exhibitions such as ‘Zemberek’, Nazım Hikmet Cultural Centre (2013), ‘Out of Town’ Music for Peace Foundation (2017), ‘Ambiguous Space’ Caddebostan Cultural Centre (2018), Bozcaada Art Workshop (20189, ‘Decomposition On Hold’ Art Factory (2018), Open Studio Days (2018). The artist, who prefers painting and video as well as ceramics in her works, lives and works in Istanbul.

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