Burçak Bingöl's work interrogates notions of belonging, culture, identity, decoration, and production by blurring the boundaries between these seemingly distinct concepts. In her first solo exhibition with the gallery in 2011 as the first stage, Bingöl utilized the conceptual framework of the cabinet of curiosities in order to merge her experiences and materials under the same rubric. In the second stage, Bingöl built on the fragmented identity of Turkey, highlighting the break from the Ottoman past without stepping into neither the East nor the West. The idea revolved around the centerpiece of a life-size truck, cast in ceramics.
Burçak Bingöl's practice interrogates notions of belonging, culture, identity, decoration, and production by blurring the boundaries between these seemingly distinct notions.
What constitutes an object of decoration? What is a replica? At what point does an object start being itself? Where does functionality lie in objects? Bingöl's work is a constant re-working of materials and objects to get to the heart of what we expect from the act of displaying and the consequent looking.
In her first solo exhibition with the gallery in 2011, Bingöl utilized the conceptual framework of the cabinet of curiosities to merge her experiences and materials under the same rubric. Building on this inherent relationship between the exhibition and the cabinet of curiosities' encyclopedic gathering and...