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I see my work as a simple representation of an object which widely includes all kinds of natural and artificial phenomena surrounding us. In the process of visualization, the object is presented in a de-familiarized context and clarified as essentially material. Throughout its isolation and materialization, I attempt to enable the spectator to re-encounter the object.

By means of a visually simple re-composition and conditional exchange, I attempt in these projects to enable the viewer to face familiar phenomena in de-familiarised situations. More precisely, instead of containing particular expressions towards the viewer, my works attempt to lead the spectator to the awareness of something, which I define as extended materiality/objectivity, in daily situations is difficult to realise. In other words, by restricting them to artificial existence, the spectator is enabled to recreate/refine the meaning of things.