MANİFESTO
In my works, I focus on the realms that human nature avoids looking at, yet cannot avert its eyes from. Gold, which has become the symbol of eternity, power, and the sacred in art history, converges with dark and unsettling imagery in my productions. The allure of light and the weight of pain contest one another on the very same surface.
Throughout history, it is only the imagery that has changed; horror, desire, and power have persisted in varying forms. In my artistic practice, through terrifying images, I aim to liberate violence from being a mere transient news fragment, transforming it into timeless testimonies that can be read within the continuity of human history. For me, aesthetics is not a way of concealing reality, but a means of approaching it.
Humans naturally desire to distance themselves from the horrific, yet they cannot resist the impulse to gaze upon it. The golden surfaces and aesthetic details in my works function as a tool that directs the viewer’s gaze toward the inevitable. Gold is not a veil that shields the gaze; on the contrary, it is a trap that lures the viewer into the image. The objective is not to embellish violence, but to force the viewer to confront this reality through aesthetics. Here, aesthetics does not serve as a shroud, but as a hook driven directly into consciousness.
Life consists neither solely of beauty nor solely of ugliness. While gold represents light, the sacred, and allure; the feral and fragile figures render pain, violence, and darkness visible. My art exists at the very threshold where these two opposing poles collide and transform each other.
