About
In my works, I urge to create a meeting space for both one’s own self and
for another. Within this journey, I chart new maps that contain private and public dreams, or
mythologies, accompanied by the therapeutic effects of collective rituals. I tend to explore the
intersection of oral culture and interspecific ecologies using socially-engaged practices. My research alludes to the circular, non-binary, and permeable aspects inherent in the fields, as well
as the historically repressed perspectives that they embody. Through this play, I dissolve
established forms, molds, entities, narratives and states, the status quo, into the same water and
re-enchant their existence as precious particles of a deep well of emotions, memories, instincts,
and vibrations. My works can take forms of text, performance and installation as well as
ancestral and speculative experiments on the exploration of ‘otherness’. I am currently doing MA in Contemporary Art Practice and Theory, at Dutch Art Institute.
ozgenciloyku@gmail.com