Artist Talk - Refa Emrali & Ece Akay - Broken Symmetry

Artist Talk

Refa Emrali & Ece Akay

25.03.2022, Friday 19:30

Join us on March 25th, Friday evening at 19:30 for an artist talk with Refa Emrali on her ongoing exhibition Broken Symmetry moderated by Ece Akay. The talk will be held in Turkish without translation, but the video recordings will be available soon. Please book for free through the link.

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Ka is hosting the “Broken Symmetry” exhibition by Refa Emrali between March 11th-April 2nd.

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Our bodies may undergo some changes by involuntary surgical interventions. In such cases, change does not happen only in the physical form but also in the perception of body, identity, and the perceptions in the mind. (...) Disintegration, cut and exposure of the body make the trauma inevitable. The artist borrows the intervened, cut, dissymmetrical organ of the body and examines it again in every new form created through art. Destiny of the given body is sacrificed to its own remains with fragments and redesigned. Binary structure, which complements each other as much as opposes, witnesses the transformation of life into art.

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Refa Emrali was born in 1962 in the Sungurlu district of Çorum. Between 1979-1983, she received her undergraduate degree at Gazi University, Department of Painting, and her master's degree from Hacettepe University Fine Arts Faculty in 1987. She received her proficiency degree in art from the same university in 1994. Refa Emrali, who became a professor in 2010, continues her academic career at the same institution.

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Ece Akay is an artist and instructor at the Faculty of Art, Design, and Architecture at Baskent University. She completed her proficiency in art with her thesis titled "Contemporary Inscriptions: The Relationship Between Text and Form in Sculpture". Through her works, she analyzes the relationship between text and image in both material and conceptual ways throughout the history of art. She is interested in topics like contemporary art, conceptual art, environmental art, and most importantly text art. She attended various national and international exhibitions, manifestations, and symposiums. Besides her artistic production, she is giving courses like basic design studio, illustration, printing techniques, and sculpture.