Original artwork description:

The artist focuses on reviving the missing female figures from the Ottoman era, which were subjected to censorship, by reintroducing them in contemporary art, thus highlighting the missing pieces of history and memories fading from collective consciousness. Utilizing lace from the dowry of his wife, Göknil Gümüş Sungurtekin, which is on the verge of disappearing today, he emphasizes the memories hidden behind the craft. He combines the aesthetic expression of the Turkish woman, portrayed in her traditional attire, with lacework. In his paintings, he merges lace textures with the decorations, motifs, and textures he previously created on walls and ceilings. The artist creates new meanings by blending motifs, decorations, laces, and figure selections with his personal memories, encompassing both recent and distant history. By integrating female figures, which were not even depicted in paintings during the Ottoman era, with lace elements adorned with memories from the past to the present and motifs from his own memories, he breathes new life into these materials. He rescues them from the brink of oblivion and, through the transformative power of art, brings them new expressions, highlighting our values and contributing to collective memory. By merging these processes, he offers a historical and aesthetic perspective composed of moments and memories.

Materials used:

lace and oil

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