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Nesren Jake (1984- )

Nesren Jake was born in 1984. He completed her primary education at Doğan College and his high school at Beşiktaş Atatürk Anatolian High School. Nesren, who got a degree in Mathematics at TUBITAK; went to Ege University for engineering education. After living in Izmir for 6 years, he returned to Istanbul and in 2010 he began to actively implement his artistic designs and thoughts.

The 5th Beijing International Art Biennial was the artist's first exhibition. He held his first solo exhibition in Istanbul in 2012 under the title of "Über Alles" as a summary of all his main ideas. He has participated in many group exhibitions. Among these exhibitions are “Skirmish”, 22nd International Tüyap Art Fair (2012), “I Love You More Than Art” (2013), Ekavart Gallery, “Edito” (2013), Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, Gallery Bu, “World Art Day” (2013), UPSD Exhibitions, “Do not be afraid” (2013), Merhart Gallery, and Young Event 6 (2014) UPSD, MKM Contemporary Art Gallery, “Istanbul Rotary Art Competition Award”, 4L Elgiz Contemporary Art Museum.

Nesren Jake as an artist, captures attentiveness with his keen, analytical wits, as she identifies his works as pop-propaganda aiming to draw attention to the existing order(s) and their potential hazards. His productions comprise analytical and critical connotations spreading through out time, while at the same time hassling with the present. He leads the way to the disinformation of the political and economical propaganda, through his ironic usage of symbols. In other words he is guiding us to question once again the social messages induced and accumulated in our subconscious, using his unique style of “the popular cultural images”. 

The artist, started to actively generate his artistic compositions and thoughts from 2010 on. Generally instead of composing a single work or the completion of a series, he chooses to indulge in works of mixed orders and different formats. By doing so he refrains from focusing on a single point but rather looks with a critical eye at what has general acceptance. His language is at times, of immense and rough criticism/cynicism, while softer at other times looking from a satirical framework.