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2016

Burçak Bingöl’s works reflect her dense cultural heritage and her continued fascination with patterns. Through her labor- intensive process of tracing, copying and reconstructing she adopts an analytical approach to ornamentation. Bingöl’s drawings convey an unusual sense of order, although they are largely made up of non-symmetrical lines and patterns.

Your photographic print included in Printed’16 is from a project that you did while a resident artist in New York. Can you elaborate on this work a bit?

I had a chance to work as a guest artist in New York Hunter College for 8 months in 2006. After this period,
I opened my first exhibition at the art gallery of the department of ceramics there.

In fact this exhibition became a period in which my relationship with ceramic materials shaped and the starting point of ideas and practise. One of these ideas was reconsidering the idea of perfection which is demanded by this material. So how do we define imperfection? Should we sought after perfection or accept the things as it is? What might be the ways of this acceptance?

‘Broken-city’ is a performative installation series site-specific to New York city. In this work, broken ceramic pieces are magnetized to a garbage can which identifies with New York. This ‘imperfect’ broken pieces from different occasions collected in a little box were transformed into little monuments of disappointments, with the help of their mini pedestals. Despite being a tiny land piece, Manhattan Island attracts people from different parts of the world like a magnet and is home to infinite variety of humans, stories and of course disappointments in itself.

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