Burcu Perçin

In 2002 Burcu Perçin graduated from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Painting Department. Following her first exhibitions at Pi Artworks in 2005 and 2006, she had several other solo shows: “Function” (C.A.M. Gallery, 2008), “Foto-Kolaj” (C.A.M Gallery, 2009), “The Lost Space” (Gallery Nev, Ankara, 2010), “No Where” (Operation Room, İstanbul, 2010), “Mural Domination” (art ON, 2012), “Under The Rose / Under The Walls” (Gallery Nev, Ankara, 2012), Mountains Have No Owners” (artON, 2014) and “Fill in the Blank (x-ist, 2017).

Among the group shows of Perçin participated are “Young Evolution” (Pera Museum, 2005), “Natur-mort” (Galerist, 2006), “DeforNation”, (Pi Artworks, 2006), “Sisyphos”, (C.A.M Gallery, 2008), “Istanbul Now” (Lukasfeichtner Gallery, Vienna, 2007), “Istanbul Art Affairs” (C.A.M Gallery - Gallery Hübner/Frankfurt, 2008), “Ego Busters 3” (C.A.M Gallery, 2009), “In Search of Lost Reality” (Gallery Nev, Ankara, 2009), “+Infinity” (Cermodern, Ankara, 2010), “If Nature is Heaven, Hell is The City” (Cer Modern, Ankara, 2011), “Encounters: Turkish Contemporary Art in Korea” (Seul, South Korea, 2012), “x-tension” (Office 4200, Bursa, 2015) and “Variations on An Andalusian Dog” (x-ist, 2015).

Perçin participated in many international art fairs such as; Art Fair Cologne’06 (Germany, 2006), Contemporary Istanbul’06, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15 & 16 (Istanbul), ArtInternational 2015 (Istanbul) SCOPE Basel 2011 & 2012 and Art Karlsruhe 2011.

Producing works using mainly oil-on-canvas technique, Perçin focuses on spaces. These spaces are an outcome of the compositions found in the photographs Perçin shoots in abandoned places she discovers. Perçin depicts the industrial areas she focuses on with a unique technique characterized with pronounced and lively brush strokes.

We come across with the spaces and objects in Perçin’s photos in forms of various collages she later designs along the process of production. Combining spaces like industrial zones, factories, depots, dockyards etc. sometimes with objects found in these spaces or sometimes with objects and images she finds elsewhere, Perçin designs a new composition and narrates these reinterpreted photo-collages on canvas. In her latest productions, we find graffiti as a recently included component.

Drawing attention towards forgotten places, Perçin questions the memory attributed to the space. However, the graffiti on the paintings implies that these spaces are still being used and that some traces are subtly left around.

Standing out with her works on canvas, Perçin also produces photo-prints intervened with photographs, collages and paint.