Göç Hikayeleri
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Migration has been a matter of need for humanity which causes its development. Being a
migrant is a nostalgic feeling and looking at a utopic identity from a different location. The
migrant lives within darkness and light just like living in a romantic space and time. To
understand migration better, we need to look at it closer. The concept of migration takes place
beyond the borders of a canvas in an endless path. Art and migration renew the human presence
within its lifetime. The phenomenon of migration is the main means for change, affecting the
culture and art along with all aspects of life. We reflect the migration path on paintings only
through the expressions of color, texture, light and shadow. Migration has various conceptual
dimensions that resulted from different reasons. The theme of migration has been continuing
until today due to three major revolutions, namely, agricultural, industrial and digital. The
aspects of visual art in modern day has taken on a different dimension due to the experience of
urbanization and industrialization in addition to migration, war and efforts of search. Migration
is the result of a change of location and time, however the phenomenon of migration presents
itself through individualistic and societal expressions. The issue has been going on continuously
within the understanding of time as before now and then. The terms such as immigrant, refugee,
asylum seeker, victim, squatting etc. have arisen depending upon the concept of migration.
Visual arts, specifically within painting, open up many perspectives to introduce the concept of
migration. The work in proficiency in art involves thinking about the concept of migration and
expressing the meaning of migration in a personal and artistic way by benefitting from various
methods and materials. Modernism has started with the effect of globalization, production, use
of nature, trading and the industrialization of services. In modern time, new waves of migrations
have started after the urbanization industrialization, and the abuse the natural resources.
In the process of the proficiency in art works, the symbols and metaphors that were used in the
paintings, cinema, sculpture, and photography that are expressing migration were analyzed.
The common structural elements were revealed aesthetically and visually. While reaching the
core of the topic, in an expressionist and abstract way, the work brings the plastic elements in
the paintings, the ambience of migration within various compositions.
As an immigrant artist of a society that changes location frequently, I reflect the symbols of
migration in my art work. The notions that are brought up by the theme of migration such as
hope, sadness, resistance, search, justice, and injustice are placed in my compositions as visual
elements.
My goal is to reflect the aesthetic impressions of the personal and societal effects of migration
through the figures, horses, striving fishes, colors and the carried objects on my paintings.
In my work of proficiency in art, I presented the effect of migration through personal and
societal influences. Within this school of thought, themes such as urbanization,
industrialization, poverty, squatting, slavery, sex trade and terrorism stand out in my art work.
The goal is to present an artistic language within the framework of abstract expressionism. The
common ground of various techniques and materials is that all were created by putting the
concept in the center while seeking for a visual language.
