Central Saint Martins MA Fine Art Interim Show 2010

EuroArt online magazine’s new issue – Co-edited by Michael Borowski and Gözde Türkkan

EuroArt online magazine‘s photography issue 10 is co-edited by Michael Borowski and Gözde Türkkan.

“Sükran / Gratitude” at 6th Ufat Photo Fest, 2009

“Şükran / Gratitude” at 6th Ufat Photography Festival at Uludağ University, Bursa between April 29th and May 2nd.

Many thanks to Şevket Can Uysal, Ragip Özdemir, Bozo Uğur Boyunsuz, E. Şeyda Korkmaz, Yüce Şahinel and UFAT crew.

“Donetsk” featured at Banané

“Donetsk” series is featured at Online Magazine Banané.

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“Untitled” Photography Exhibition, 2008

"Untitled" Photography Exhibition

Dilge Atasoy and Gözde Türkkan, 2007

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Donetsk, 2008

“Donetsk” is a city situated in eastern Ukraine. More specifically, “Donetsk” is the blended result of my impressions about an era, a country, a city, a people that I experienced through my significant other.

Gözde Türkkan, “Donetsk”, Series of 16 photographic sequences, 2008

Void, 2006

Void, 0’59, 2006

Void was screened at !f Istanbul 2007 International Independent Films Festival.

baktim sana dönüp baktigimda baktin mi bana / I was looking to see if you were looking back at me to see me looking back at you, 2008

"baktım sana dönüp baktığımda baktın mı bana / I was looking to see if you were looking at me to see me looking back at you" Book Photos

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This book embodies some of my deepest fears, complexes, desires and stimulations. These are carried to a next level as I projected them into this physical fetishistic object and I now declare my independence from them.

And I sated.


Gözde Türkkan, baktim sana dönüp baktigimda baktin mi bana / I was looking to see if you were looking at me to see me looking back at you, 29x36cm, 104 pages, 2008

Lux et Veritas, 2006

That feeling comes with the moment’s light.
And the moment is unique. So the light is. And its uniqueness makes it extraordinary.
But existence is also a succession of moments, which brings about a feeling of ordinariness.
So is the moment the stillness of existence and light.
Absence and nothingness arise from this stillness of the moment’s light.
Light is the truth of existence and the truth is silent.
 
This is about the duality of existence and light.
This is how I feel, how I think of things. This is nothing.


Gözde Türkkan, Lux et Veritas, 10 pairs of photographs, 2006

Milky, 2006

Milky, 2’28, 2006

Milky was screened at !f Istanbul 2007 International Independent Films Festival.

The Pursuit Within, 2007

The Pursuit Within, 4’30, 2007

Synopsis
The pursuit within is set in a dream-like cherry tree forest and narrates an unconscious and instinctive pursuit: the feminine part of an androgynous being,Sakura, is wandering in an immense forest and is guided by a red waistband which seems to extend forward her until infinity. She is being pulled to the other pole of the waistband but what awaits her is unbeknown: is it her male part or just a pursuit within her?
Even though the presence of the “male part”, Hosoge, is not cognizable, he has a major gravity.
This pursuit, which seems to take place in Sakura’s inner realm, is unconscious and conditioned, and it is guided by the instincts, revealing her substantial form: pure existence.

Inspirations
It is quite common that, from time to time, most human beings feel like something is missing, something very familiar yet unknown, something that once belonged to them; their missing half. Ancient greek philosopher Plato had a theory about the cause of this feeling of lack. Once humans were composed of two bodies inhabitting in one. As they dared challenging the gods, Zeus split them in two for punishment. Thenceforth each of them seeks its other half, its missing half. Some of those early humans were androgynes, half man half woman creatures.

Takeshi Kitano’s movie “Dolls” narrates a man and a woman tied to each other with a piece of red rope, wandering around, senseless, while seasons passes by.

Cherry trees (sakura) have always been a symbol of ephemeral beauty in Japan and cherry blossoms are an enduring metaphor for the ephemeral nature of life.

Dear Diary, 2004

Gözde Türkkan, Dear Diary, 30 photographs, 2004

Home, 2008

"Home" book photos

Gözde Türkkan, Home, 15x21cm, 32 pages, 2008

Sükran / Gratitude, 2004-2008

Gözde Türkkan, Şükran / Gratitude, 198 Polaroid, 2004-2008

I have not much to say.
I did not take the last photograph.
If I did, I would have been a different person now; or maybe I would have taken it if I were a different person.
That nonexistent photograph belongs to one of my “decisive moments”.

The last photograph is absent, the same way she is. Maybe that’s the whole story.

Tershane “Taze beyinlere ihtiyacimiz var” Exhibition, 2008

Gözde Türkkan, Self-Portrait, 300x120cm, 2008

Emplacement at Tershane Exhibition

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