Naturally Awry
Naturally Awry, 2014-2010
kultur shock #1-5, 2010, digital C-print
inhabitants #1-3, 2011, stitch and acrylic on turkish scarf
from right to left, left to right, 2011, stitch on lace, wooden stick
not yet, not yet, 2014, stitch and acrylic on fabric
pollyanna paranoid, 2013, stitch and acrylic on scarf
atro city, 2014, stitch and acrylic on fabric
cozza #1-5, 2013, ink and fabric on sea shell
In this series, nothing is naturally awry.
Art often finds its voice in distortion through overlapping lines, unconventional materials, and unlikely juxtapositions. It embraces the absurd, bends logic, and offers a space where contradiction can flourish. But what happens when absurdity is no longer a creative act, but a daily reality?
When you hear the news from a place where the roles of art and politics have been recklessly shuffled, where governance itself seems to mimic performance art, there is a strong chance that the society is enacting a pure form of absurdity, one that leaves little room for artistic interpretation. In such a setting, visual absurdity loses its edge, because life has already surpassed it.
And yet, art insists on making art. Even in a country marked by what could be called a brutal artlessness.
These collaged scenes confront the viewer with the raw realities of life in contemporary Turkey: earthquakes, terror, poverty, child abuse. At the same time, it gestures toward deeply embedded cultural behaviours, gestures passed down, absorbed, repeated, making the absurd not only visible, but familiar.
This series does not aim to shock. Instead, it mirrors what already is by holding it just long enough for us to truly see it. Here, absurdity is not an aesthetic choice. It’s a lived condition.