FURKAN ÖZTEKİN

FURKAN ÖZTEKİN

FURKAN ÖZTEKİN

Furkan Öztekin (b. 1993) graduated from the Painting Department at Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Fine Arts and completed his postgraduate studies at Namık Kemal University Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Painting. He was among the participants of Istanbul Biennial Production and Research Pogramme between 2018 and 2019. His solo exhibitions are Four Seasons in May at Mixer and A Topography of It’s Own at Riverrun. Öztekin re-interprets the notion of space through the axis of silence, emptiness, time, limits and rhythm.

Furkan Öztekin reconsiders the phenomenon of space on the axis of silence, emptiness, time, border and rhythm in his productions, in which he uses paper as a material. He evaluates the ways of thinking and the fragile relations that can be established between memory and space, which have been important in the history of LGBTI+ resistance. The installation titled 'Flow', which consists of seven pieces of paper collage accompanies the artist's video work 'Street Cleaning'. In the installation there are sections taken according to the flow form of water from the photos of the cleaning works carried out by the municipality on the same street, on the real estate photos of the rental houses on Ülker Street.