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Gonca Sezer

Gonca Sezer (1964 - )
In 1981-86, she completed her master's degree at Mimar Sinan University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Painting. In 2002, she received a scholarship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and had the opportunity to work at the University of Virginia.

Gonca Sezer performs installations, performances and interventions using different tools such as drawing, photography and everyday materials. The artist, who has a painting-based art education, evaluates this diversity in his works as a reflection of visual memory on his works. Gender, violence and memory are some of the themes she brings to the fore in her thematically varied works. At the Istanbul off Space event held in Berlin in 2009, Gonca Sezer focused on issues such as women's relationship with the city as an individual, their existence in daily life and the social roles assigned to women.

The artist, who associates social traumas with patterns and three-dimensional objects in his exhibition titled On What Lives in Deserted Spaces (2015), said: “I worked by fictionalizing the social traumas we experience in our daily lives through children, women and objects. In this series that I created from patterns and objects, children and women are gathered under the title of current situation. My three-dimensional objects called Bureaucrats were included in my ironic project. The frog bureaucrats and their parts, which I painted with gold leaf, are destructive beings that do not reflect the problems and wishes of the people, but consume everything that is as valuable as gold in the institutions they are appointed to. Forget-Me-Not Flower, on the other hand, supports the discourses in my exhibition with its ordinary but equally interesting definition for centuries.