Lives of Others
December 2023 - September 2024
IZMIR
The statue planned as part of this project aims to visually express the concepts of watching and being watched, and encourage the audience to think about these matters. By presenting the sense of surveillance and watching that people are exposed to in daily life with an artistic experience, it aims to evoke emotional reactions of the audience. The statue is formed inside a large structure where many eyes move and rotate in different directions. Each eye rotates in a different direction at a different speed, and follows. The statue is placed on a platform where viewers can see from many different angles, so that viewers experience different eyes rotating, depending on the direction they look. The project materializes the act of watching, emphasizes what kind of an experience this concept is. The sculpture creates an atmosphere in which the viewers are constantly watched by many eyes, thereby aiming to strengthen the feeling of being watched.
Tuğçe Yakar
Born in Artvin in 1989, the artist completed her primary, secondary and high school education in Izmir and began studying Biology at Ege University in 2007. She graduated from Anadolu University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture in 2019. She participated in many symposiums as an assistant and guest artist during and after her university education. She worked as a graphic designer and video editor at various graphic design agencies. She continues sculpting at her workshop in Şirince, Izmir.
Rıdvan Oral
Rıdvan Oral was born in 1994 in the Körüklükaya Village of the Eruh district of Siirt. In the same year, the family with 8 children had to leave their village due to evacuation, subsequently worked in various regions of Turkey before finally settling in the Ortaklar district of Aydın.
Voluntarily ending his education life before finishing high school, Rıdvan Oral has worked in many jobs since childhood, such as shoe painting, construction and hotels. When his father started to work in the construction of the Nesin Mathematics Village in 2007, he also started to work in the construction of the village in 2010, and then switched to gardening works.
As of 2018, he began using his tools to carve fantastic faces on tree barks outside of working hours, then he began collecting all kinds of materials (roots, acorns, bones and horns, etc.) he could find and began creating sculptures out of them. In addition to the beauties in nature, he brings together independent, decaying and fragmented objects that are left in the dark, and actually presents them as creepy characters to people who carelessly destroy them, ignore them and cause them to fade away. He reveals humans’ ignoring of the nature and explains, in his sculptures, the details of his own view of nature.
www.ridvanoral.com
This page is published on 8 December 2023.
