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DERYA YILMAZ is currently preparing a thesis study about the materials she uses in her sculptures. She tracks her footsteps laid deep within the perception that wood is the mirror of mankind. Her carvings are each an “Object of Migration”; such as blanket, pillow, cradle. Objects we create, get deeply attached to, are afraid to replace; objects loaded with memories and meanings of life. In a world becoming uniform day by day, the artist reflects the anxiety of losing meanings of life while those objects of immigration, having common references: as a communication medium, given and taken as gifts, and/or inherited, are lost at the same time. She perceives changes in culture, the loosing of social interactions as decay and feels the need to question the concept of cultural connections; and in doing that he invites the audience to do the same. Because these are her close observations, a deep sensation and thinking upon experience.
Turkey is a land of migration. The artist thinks that there are common elements between the economical, social migration and recently the more painful migrations from the Balkans. The language he uses in reflecting this to the audience is to repeat the creative process within the culture he lives in with a different material like wood. By using the images instead of the objects, re-living the experience of labour consisting of techniques and craftsmanship, in an identical realistic expression including colour. Forming the individual story, self-expression of each object in a tedious description, although there is an aesthetic concern for arrangement.
*Excerpt from the "Ahşap Yontudan Dört Açı / Four Angles from a Wooden Carving" Sculpture Exhibition catalogue. |
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Prof. Meriç Hızal |