Photography // Natureresynthetique I - 2019

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BIOGRAPHY

Born in Istanbul in 1987, Mert Çağıl Türkay completed his undergraduate, graduate and art proficiency education at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Department of Photography. He has taken part in exhibitions and workshops on many national and international platforms such as "International Print Triennial / Interfaces", "Realm- Eyes On / Monat der fotografie Wien", "Mamut Art Project", "TÜYAP Art Fair", "Aspects of Balkan Photography". He produces photography, alternative photo printing techniques, installation and video projects. He uses alternative photographic printing techniques that can convey contemporary and avant-garde images that emerge emotionally and symbolically through the manipulation of tonality, texture, materials and details. In his works, the politics of difference and emphasis on gender, the body-power relationship and the use of the body for protest purposes are mostly seen.

ARTIST STATEMENT

The artist, who produces photography, alternative photo printing techniques, installation and video projects, frequently uses alternative photo printing techniques to create contemporary and avant-garde images that can convey visual information emotionally and symbolically through the manipulation of tonality, texture, material and detail. The main subjects of the photo and video installations are mostly the politics of difference, the concept of the other, the emphasis on homoeroticism and gender, the body-power relationship and the use of the body for protest purposes. The body became the most important object of his work because it was a material with a high expressive power that could be manipulated from various perspectives at will, or even completely destroyed and recreated in the process. He emphasizes the body-gender duality and gender construction in his works, in which he examines the varying and ongoing effects of the control of the masculine structure on both the artist and his works, and the questioning methods of the mechanisms created against these effects.

EXHIBITIONS

2019, "Ara Öğün", NOKS Independent Art Space, Istanbul, Turkey
2022, “Çark”, Through The Window 2022, Karşı Sanat Çalışları & Koli Art Space, İstanbul, Turkey
2022, “Palimpsest”, Mahalla Festival, Noks Art Space Video Selection, Istanbul, Turkey
2022, “2. “International Arslantepe Meeting”, From Melita to Malatya, Photo Academy Exhibition, Malatya, Turkey
2021, “The Photo Object”, Alternative Processes, (online exhibition)
2021, “Through The Window”, Phase 2, Turkey / Netherlands Queer Artists Group Group Exhibition, (online exhibition)
2020, "Between the Borders", Maltepe University Faculty of Fine Arts, 4th International Academics Exhibition, Istanbul, Turkey
2019, "Modern Discourse in Science - Education and Art", Konstantin Preslavsky Shumen University, International Student Video Art Festival, Shumen, Bulgaria
2019, “ToleranceL", Maltepe University Faculty of Fine Arts, 3rd International Academics Exhibition, Istanbul, Turkey
2019, "Reflex", Indie Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2018, "Istanbul Codex", Join the Dots / Unire le distanze (Connect the Distances) Imago Mundi, Italy
2018, Aspects of Balkan Artist's Books - Art Thessaloniki International Contemporary Art Fair, Thessaloniki, Greece
2018, "Saturation Point", DemoLab, 28th International Artist / Tüyap Art Fair, Istanbul, Turkey
2018, "Timeless", 6th International Printing Technologies / Istanbul University International iPrint Exhibition, Istanbul University Rectorate Foyer Area, Turkey
2017, "Artist's Utopia", 27th International Artist / Tüyap Art Fair, Istanbul, Turkey
2017, "Digital Obscura", 27th International Artist / Tüyap Art Fair, Istanbul, Turkey
2017, "Gaze Book", Sicily Photobook Festival, Sicily Photography Book Festival, Italy
2016, "City Dialogues", Bursa FotoFest / 6th Bursa International Photography Festival, Bursa, Türkiye
2016, "Unexpected Lands", 26th International Artist / Tüyap Art Fair, Istanbul, Turkey
2016, "Digital Obscura", 26th International Artist / Tüyap Art Fair, Istanbul, Turkey
2016,"Transform...Ation Of Image"/ Transform, Museum Of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
2016, "Contact", The Month of Photography, Bulgaria
2016, ''Art in Daily Life'', Maltepe University, International Student Congress Exhibition, Istanbul, Turkey
2016, "Environmentals Fertile", Aspects of Balkan Photography, Thessaloniki, Greece
2015, "Witnessing the Past", 25th International Artist / Tüyap Art Fair, Istanbul, Turkey
2015, "Migration", Bursa FotoFest / 5th Bursa International Photography Festival, Bursa, Türkiye
2014, "The Other Within Us", 24th International Artist / Tüyap Art Fair, Istanbul, Turkey
2013, "Colors of Life", Bursa FotoFest 2013 / 3rd Bursa International Photography Festival, Bursa, Türkiye
2012, "Realm", Eyes On – Monat der Fotografie Wien, Vienna, Austria

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