Name
Merve Çanakçı
Biography
Merve Çanakçı is an artist from Ordu, Turkey born in 1982. She studied painting at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul. The extensive list of her international exhibitions includes solo shows at Artsümer Gallery, Istanbul and group show i.a. in Apartment Project, Ark Kültür, National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC, and 48 Stunden Neukölln. She lives and works in Berlin since 2009.
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Artist Statement
Merve Çanakçı's main drive in creating her art comes from the human psyche. Coping with fears, decision-making, resistance to change, and limiting past beliefs resonate in the materials she chooses to use. Most commonly, she applies paint, sewing, drawing, etching, cutting, and collage on misprinted fabrics. She sees these fabrics as scattered pieces belonging to a different existence. The stories and beings that are not worth telling in this world are integrated with the fabrics' patterns, stains, and production faults. The combination of texture and structure, defects, and stains on the fabric creates images that provide new dimensions for her storytelling; a new dimension in which the subjects within her work are allowed to express themselves freely with all of their flaws.
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