Statement

I examined how figurative painting can function as a medium for visualizing emotions in this digital era.

​I focused on the ideas of fear, isolation, and anxieties that come from surroundings. In particular, they deal with a sense of alienation derived from modern digitalized society and culture.

I am particularly interested in modern society, oversaturation of images and information. In particular, my work addresses The Net Generation.

In the digital world, everything is changing with accelerated speed, and this phenomenon brings out lots of genres such as electronic, cyber punk, vapor wave, and pastel goth. These unique and new genres are the result of synthesizing various cultures and styles in this modern society. Looking at the colour palette of Vaporwave, It is very similar to my work: Vaporwave’s colour pallet can be sorted by two shades. One is the bright and pastel which is light blue, pink turquoise green and the other is dark shades, mainly using black and lightened neon pink, blue and purple. In this regard, I asked myself if could be considered a "Vaporwave painter." In the advanced technological society, Vaporwave genre using the 1990s’ shoddy pixel or picture, gives me a B-movie feeling and something regarding alienation. But there is also such a strange feeling that evokes the 90s’ nostalgia. It is distorting the technical progress and gives a hip feeling.

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Appropriating the dialectics of classical portraiture, landscape and still - life painting, I introduce my subjective mythology to these conventional categories.

In this way, my practice oscillates between highly personal status and direct relation to our common experience and emotions. As a result, my work, whether depicting an object, person or landscape, avoids falling into the trap of hierarchization. I observe surroundings with a peculiar level of objectivism which is emphasized by my meticulous painting technique.

 

In this way, carefully observing the digital world's iconographic peripheries, I develop my original language while portraying an alienated reality.

Seeking for authenticity in the flood of violent and irritating visual shocks, I returned to the traditional painting process. Challenging the question of spamming in mass media and the internet the choice of images I work with are extremely premeditated and conscious. Usually using photographs as a basis for my paintings I focus on what is generally overlooked in the unstoppable stream of virtual pictures. Solid gradation of the color and cellophane film usually forms a background for the painting and is used as a motif to filter the visual information. At the same time, this technique allows me to express the notion of alienation and emptiness.