Sinem Dişli

Sinem Dişli was born in 1982 in Urfa, Turkey. She earned her B.F.A. degree in “Sculpture” at Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir and her M.F.A degree in “Photography” at Marmara University, Istanbul. In 2008, she was awarded a scholarship to attend the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her work was also shown internationally in group exhibitions such as “A Pillar of Smoke” (The Rencontres d’Arles, 2018) and was nominated for The Prix Pictet Award in 2019. Her work, ‘Hollows and Mounds: A Take on Göbeklitepe’, is exhibited at the Ara Güler Museum and Leica Gallery Istanbul. In her work, she questions how we construct and reconstruct the world with photography, revealing photography’s quest for unraveling the mysteries of the universe by accompanying the sciences such as archaeology or geology. She focuses on fluidity in nature’s various manifestations of the matter and of the light. By making use of photography, she reflects on issues, conceptual problems, and ideas related to its own ontology. Just as many manifestations of the physical world are interlinked to each other through matter or light, her works follow the idea that concepts like ambiguity, time, and meaning are also interconnected in some way.