CEYLAN ÖZTRÜK | Self-specular, a moment

Looking at Ceylan Öztrük’s most recent body of work is impossible: the transparency, translucency, and the reflectivity of the materials dispose of any sense of a separation of the object, of the work and the subject of the viewer and things blend, melt, confuse, exaggerate. The attributed physical qualities of the objects palpitate with the tension that is at the core of the threads that Öztrük has always drawn onto in her practice — what are the embedded knowledges buried/suffocated by materialities that can be liberated through the self-reflexive artist and what does this self-reflexive artist even do with herself?