Manifest

Portraits Series

The Portrait Series offers a space of inquiry that aims to confront not only one's external appearance but also one's inner world and identity construction. Rather than representing a fixed identity, each portrait becomes a mirror that reveals the individual's emotional, psychological, and social layers.

This series invites the viewer not merely to look but to engage in a reflective encounter with their own self. Social roles, personal traumas, and internal conflicts are represented through the portraits not as faces, but as a process of selfhood shifting and transforming. Thus, the works reject fixed images of identity while highlighting the subject's constantly rewritten nature.

Clown Series

The Clown Series focuses on the individual's true self, hidden behind social masks. The clown figure represents both a playground and an internal conflict; the fragility, anxiety, and identity uncertainty hidden behind humor become apparent.

This series treats the masked face not as protection, but as a site of inquiry. The viewer is invited to confront the inner emptiness behind false smiles and the identity tensions created by social roles. By revealing the constantly reconstructed nature of the self on the social stage, the clown guides the viewer through a process of inner and philosophical transformation.

Shaman Series

The Shaman Series symbolically depicts an individual's journey to discover their inner strength, reconnect with nature, and access universal wisdom. The works emphasize that spiritual and social transformation is not merely a theme but a process intertwined with art itself.

The figure of the shaman calls for an existence free of fixed identities, in harmony with nature, and equipped with self-awareness. This call invites the viewer not only to observe but also to question their own self on a deeper, more holistic, and transformative level. Each piece in the series is a spiritual rite of passage through art; it expresses a return to the inner self and a reorientation towards nature.

Toska Series

The Toska series argues that existential emotions such as melancholia, emptiness, and loneliness are not passive destruction, but rather creative grounds for the reconstruction of the self. This approach, which combines Freud's insights on melancholia with Foucault's understanding of self-culture, centers on a subject that transcends fixed images of identity and constantly transforms and evolves.

Each work in the exhibition symbolizes the creative rebirths that follow internal collapses. Fixed faces are replaced by forms that transform within the flow of existence and represent creativity. Toska reveals a process in which identity construction is constantly evolving through loss and lack; loneliness becomes the starting point of creation.

In this context, Toska represents not only a spiritual state but also a practice of philosophical and artistic transformation. The viewer is invited to transcend fixed self-images and rethink their own existence through the new faces and identities that sprout from the void.