Original artwork description:

The artist revives the female figures that were subject to censorship during the Ottoman period, revealing the missing pieces of history and memories that are about to be erased from social memory. Using the lace he received from his wife Göknil Gümüş Sungurtekin's dowry, which is about to disappear today, he emphasizes manual labor and the memories behind this labor in his works. He brings together the aesthetic stance of the Turkish woman in her traditional clothes with lace knitting. He combines his paintings with the decorations, motifs and textures he previously made on the walls and ceilings with lace. The artist creates new meanings by blending recent and distant history with his own individual memories. He blends the female figure, which was not even included in paintings during the Ottoman period, with lace elements adorned with memories from the past to the present, and with decorations and pictures that have a place in his own memories. He gives new life to the missing parts of the past, saves them from the brink of oblivion and gives them new expressions with the transformative power of art, emphasizing social memory. By combining these processes, he offers a historical and aesthetic perspective consisting of moments and memories.

Materials used:

lace and oil

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