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I interpret art as a way to escape the physical world we are into, meanwhile, it leads into another more comprehensive reality. In this reality, we don’t need words that limit the concept, in contrast, an unrestricted way of communication is possible through art. Beyond thinking through language, the experience of feelings develops the process of creating. The sensory system we build our perception upon makes it feasible for us to interact with the surrounding stimulants, and these stimulants are a method of manipulation within the space to create an experience as my art practice. Within meditative states of the body or psychotherapeutic processes, we can determine specific complications and traumas which are lying in our subconsciousness through physical scanning. Thus, it becomes possible to realize the relation between body and mind. The body as an expressive tool reacts to what we experience, my muscles, gesture, and posture is my instrument, that’s why I put performance or “act” in the center of my creation. 


In the moments when one realizes the vitality of life, everything transforms into nothing, they all become the same. Everything is made of the same material, 'the energy' from the starting point of their creation, from the zero point. In such moments, duality, me and not mine, as we have been experiencing becomes nonexistent. The realization of being everything and nothing at the same time, makes people experience life as it is. I think this is the only way that we can feel each other like rings of the chain and communicate in such a world that becomes liberated from words. 





3 Mevsim, Performance, September 2021

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