About Me

About my artistic journey

My artistic journey, which began with color harmonies, continues with aesthetic exploration. I question the beauty through abstract expression, mature, and struggle to find it. I grapple with self-hatred and a sense of inferiority, as the things I do fail to arouse me and I approach my own self with accusatory inquiries, closing my consciousness. After this process, I enter a phase where I realize that I am not the culprit of everything that enlightens me, and I start to refrain from blaming myself. I allow unconscious processes to flow through my mind and engage in a psychoanalytic process where I confront my thoughts and my self. As a result, the images that merge with my dreams and the images I draw, and the acceleration of the process I am in, are intertwined with art, and the transfer or projection of my unique aesthetic pursuit in union with art. I feel peace, happiness, and both tranquility and restlessness while not being alone with these canvases.

Defne

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Hi I was born in 1989 in Sisli, Istanbul. I went Koc Private High School and graduated in 2009. Then she studied at Sabanci University, in 2012 I did an internship at a company called BNDG in London for 3 months while studying at Sabanci University's Visual Communication Design Department. I am graduated from Sabanci University with full marks in my graduation project, created a psychedelic children's book and a stop motion film consisting of 5 scenes, 3 front and back paintings and 5000 photographic frames for the stop motion. Later, I participated in several group exhibitions in Turkey as a painter. In 2016, I am participated in the Artist Residency called Mas El Iglos at Barcelona Torelles de Foix Barcelona; and lived in Barcelona for 3 months. Then, in 2017, I am participated in a painting fair called Vernice Art Fair in Italy. Since 2019, I started to add wooden frames to my paintings and started to paint the frames.

I created patterns in 2020 and founded my own Fashion brand, Le Monade Dreams, in 2021. In this process, I decided to involve myself with Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT). In 2022, I published a book describing the combination of NFT's paintings, frames and designs that work with the Generative art logic and the designs I created for my brand. I decided to carry the project combining my art and brand to the NFT world. This artist, I started psychoanalytic therapy in 2022, and started to write a book about art-birth, death, psychoanalysis, archetypes and duality by searching Carl Jung and Freud in 2023. In the summer of 2023, I participated in a group exhibition at Titanic Hotel together with Bodrum Maji Gallery. Later, the same summer, I held my first solo exhibition consisting of 50 paintings at Cesme Pecos Rock Bar. My work on writing books, creating patterns, fabrics, and painting for the fashion brand, still continues.

Defne