Artisanal Iteration Series

Tuğçe Diri

Tuğçe Diri was born in Eskisehir in 1984. She graduated from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in 2010 and holds a degree in Applied Lithography and Painting. She opened her own studio sequentially in 2010 and continued working independently. In 2019, she completed her master’s degree at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University with the thesis "Reflections of Traditional Arts in Contemporary Turkish Painting". Working in series and using materials such as acrylic/oil paint, charcoal/ink pencil, collage, fabric, and yarn, she has maintained drawing and painting to this day at the heart of her production process. Diri is influenced by a wide range of art movements and techniques, from the Arte Povera to Surrealism, from the dynamism of Abstract Expressionism to the design and text-painting traditions of Islamic Arts. Re-synthesizing material, blending different societies' and cultures' concepts of history, memory, and the role nature plays within different cultures visual cultures and tradition, is what drives the artist´s artistic process and gives her work a sense of collision, yet also rebirth within and between different worlds the viewer can only slowly comprehend when being confronted with her work.