ARTIST STATEMENT

I combined artworks, poems, audios, videos , photographs and interviews to explore love, pain and joy in a vivid world.

 

My work focuses on reconstructing witches in a feminist context. The witch is a contradictory symbol as they are seen as evil but powerful women. It indicates men's fear of women's power somehow. Witch hunts from the past that continues to exist worldwide today in different forms is vivid proof. Therefore, I redefine witches as positive figures.

 

How to fight with patriarchy questioned me. With my thinking deepening, I believe it is an institutional battle. Therefore, I set the background in an extreme way by creating an imaginary matriarchal world of witches. They are powerful but share the same emotions as we do.

 

The witch is one figure that I use to express my feminist ideas. Seasonal changes and my travels in Europe evoked my passion for nature. I Obsess with green and blue colours to capture serene and poetic imagery. During the process, video and photography have become more important media. Immersing in a wider world is another form of freedom. From their life to where their life embedded, I extended to the abstract nature, landscape and emotion of the witches' world.

 

Influenced by Rebecca Tamas's Witch, Opera The Blue Woman, Kelly Lloyd's podcast This Thing We Call Art, Violeta Maya and France-Lise Mcgurn's paintings, interdisciplinary research plays a significant role in my art practice.