Original artwork description:

In this work, the artist creates this work using lace he received from his wife Göknil Gümüş Sungurtekin’s dowry, sections from paintings and textures he made on walls in previous periods. In the small embroidery textures of the lace, he combines the individual’s past memories, social traces with figurative visuals that shed light on traditional history, and his moments with personal brush strokes. Lace, combined with the artist’s brush strokes, creates a new story on the canvas and revives the absence of censored female figures in Ottoman Turkish painting from a historical perspective. With the materials the artist uses in his works, he goes beyond being a mere visual object and reworks it, creating a dialogue from personal and collective memories. Using these materials, the artist gives them a new life and meaning, saves them from the brink of oblivion, and reshapes them with the transformative power of art.

Materials used:

oil

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