Artist Name: Büşra Çeğil
Residency Dates: October – November 2024
Born: 1988
Hometown: Istanbul, Turkey
Lives & Works: Eskisehir, Turkey
URL: busracegil.com | Instagram: @busracegil
Education:
2017| Bachelor’s Degree from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Department of Sculpture
Bio/Statement:
Büşra Çeğil graduated from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Department of Sculpture in 2017. During her education, she continued production in her workshop in Istanbul, using many different materials and techniques. She has participated in many exhibitions in Turkey and abroad. During the artist hosting program she was invited to in Switzerland, she performed with three different projects. She was selected for the new media artist hospitality program in Istanbul and took part in the first mixed NFT exhibition in 2022. The artist is mainly known for her interdisciplinary productions in Turkey where she is known for her site-specific placements. She carries out her studies by blending art, sculpture, video art, installation, augmented reality, ceramic disciplines with cinema, music, literature and psychology.
Büşra Çeğil is an artist who produces her works with an interdisciplinary approach. Psychoanalytic and sociological elements often play an important role in her aesthetics. Migration, individual and collective memory, grief, internal displacement, nostalgia, anomie, melancholy, social degeneration, restlessness, the cycle of destruction and rebirth of nature, tracing forms of remembrance are the main motifs that you can find in the artist’s aesthetics. By deforming and deconstructing objects, she makes us feel the alienation of the contemporary individual. In addition, Büşra‘s artistic practice also includes site-specific dramatic installations.
Büşra Çeğil has exhibited her work both in Turkey and internationally, taking part in artist residency programs in Switzerland and in Istanbul for the distinguished ‘New Media Hospitality’ program in 2022. Some of Büşra’s recent installation projects include: The Black Swan (2024); Sleeping Panorama (2023); A Dense Moment (2023); Cabinet of Curiosities (2023); Return of the Repressed (2022); They Can’t Have Gone Too Far (2022); Circle (2022); and A Family Portrait (2022).
