Fatma Bucak

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Description

Fatma Bucak
Blessed are you who come - Conversation on the Turkish-Armenian border
HD video, colour with sound (8 minutes, 42 seconds)
Executed in 2012, this work is number 2 from an edition of 5, plus 1 artist's proof.

Provenance

Property of the artist

Exhibited

London, Royal College of Art, M.A. Graduation Show, 2013
London, Institute of Contemporary Art, Bloomberg New Contemporaries, 2013, n.p.
Turin, Artissima, Present Future, 2013, n.p.
Istanbul, Yapi Kredi Kultur Sanat, Transition Project, 2013
Bristol, Spike Island, Bloomberg New Contemporaries, 2013, n.p.
Dundee, DJCAD Cooper Gallery, Estrangement, 2013
Bologna, Art Defender, Academy Now I Bologna, 2013, n.p.
London, Rosenfeld Porcini Gallery, The Birth of Cinema... and Beyond, 2013

Literature

Istanbul, ARTER, Fatma Bucak: Yet Another Story About the Fall, 2013-2014, p. 58

Catalogue Note

"Exploring aesthetics that draw from literature to medieval symbolism, my research embraces subjects recalling my autobiographical past and personal experiences. Silent landscapes, home to ancient Biblical and Koranic stories, an unconscious sense of guilt, the peremptory presence of a feminine person: through these metaphors I reinterpret archetypes and myths belonging to the origins and classical traditions of the Mediterranean area.

Performances, photographic and video works summon back to life their inherent political power, causing them to intimately and subversively betray their origins, and instilling them with new possible meanings and interpretations, in a shift back and forth from East to West."

Artist's statement, Royal College of Art Graduate Show, 2013