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2016

Merve Kılıçer’s works can be described as visualised moments of contextual questions on personal and interpersonal relations as they stem from fragile textures, structures and experimentation.

On which direction the 14th Istanbul Biennial affected your work? If there was anything interesting that you observed in this process can you share with us?

My creation process for the Istanbul Biennial, firstly, deepened my knowledge and experience on engraving techniques. When the creation process turn into learning process, it is more exciting for me and also by increasing the margin of error that it makes me more open to the surprises.

Can you mention a bit about your themes?

Existence / Nascence / is in a degree that we can call mystic but also abstract, textural works - like they always have a reference from nature...

How is your exploration process going?

I usually proceeded on textures for my print works. In fact, the thing I’m doing is to unveil and to gather up patterns of things I found in nature or stuffs we use in daily life by mediating. When these elements start to gather, they create and tell different stories and memories and at the end the work creates itself. To make this happen, it is necessary to let things flow and to have the ability and awareness to capture the spontaneous acts. In compliance with consciousness I have today, in every art production type these rules remain valid and I’m proceeding on this way too.

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