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脟a臒la Ulusoy: Gardenscapes
Dirimart is pleased to present Gardenscapes, 脟a臒la Ulusoy鈥檚 second solo exhibition at the gallery. In this spatial installation, Ulusoy extends her artistic language into the physical environment, transforming the space to enrich the experience of her paintings. By framing the exhibition as a continuation of her visual enquiry, she invites viewers to engage directly with the sensory and conceptual essence of her work.
Ulusoy鈥檚 practice unfolds as a layered narrative that fuses traces of the everyday with a contemporary aesthetic language. The accumulation of paint on the canvas generates indeterminate spaces rooted in both individual and collective memory. Reinterpreting the imprints left by the geographies she inhabits, the artist sustains a delicate balance between abstraction and reality. Her paintings evoke the texture of ever transforming places, while images that emerge and dissolve on the surface prompt reflection on memory and time. Her distinctive use of materials mirrors her conceptual approach: by combining jute, wax, and sand with oil and acrylic, she constructs depth and textures that convey the fragility of abandoned spaces and memories. Across these layered surfaces, the convergence of Eastern and Western painterly sensibilities is revealed in her orchestration of colour and form. Simultaneously harmonious and discordant, these elements form essential parts of a visual narrative that embodies a dynamic tension between nostalgia and disorientation. Through such contrasts, Ulusoy continually disrupts and reconstructs the visual surface, opening a space for both intellectual and emotional reflection.
Gardenscapes opens with Ulusoy鈥檚 artist鈥檚 book OVERWORKED, published in May 2025, which comprises her collages interlacing different media and in dialogue with her selected works. Serving as an invitation into Ulusoy鈥檚 world, this book brings together collages made from her own photographs alongside found images, offering a deeper insight into the artist鈥檚 universe while revealing how her imagery is constructed and from which references it draws. As with the experience of OVERWORKED, the viewer in the exhibition is immersed in field of images, though this time this image-world extends into the physical domain, enveloping the audience spatially as well.
At the core of Gardenscapes lies Ulusoy鈥檚 act of creating a personal garden, composed of fragments of her inner world, traces of memory, and remnants of the everyday. Unlike traditional gardens, ordered and aestheticised, Ulusoy鈥檚 garden unsettles the distance between nature and the built environment, exposing and questioning the gulf between them. For her, the 鈥榞arden鈥� 鈥� like the surface of a painting or the screen of a phone 鈥� is sharply bounded yet intuitively and meticulously constructed, offering an alluring and fantastical site of escape. Gardenscapes greets the viewer as a space that both reveals and distorts, often unsettlingly, the boundaries between physical painting and the digital screen. This garden simultaneously draws the viewer in with the seduction of colour and repels them with its cold, desolate, and uncanny atmosphere.
Ulusoy鈥檚 garden exists both as a fictional construct and a threshold. Here, the lines between the natural and the artificial, the physical and the digital, and the real and the imagined become blurred. The viewer, caught in a state of in-betweenness, discovers the meaning of the garden most acutely within this ambiguity. Resembling a carefully arranged yet fictive structure the garden is animated by paintings that punctuate the space. Reflective surfaces evoke both water and a digital sensibility, guiding the viewer through the space even as the warmth of the paintings offer a refuge.
The exhibition culminates in a video and sound installation that brings the experience into a holistic dimension. Located in a darkened space, this final section invites the audience on a journey that is as auditory as it is visual. Like leaves complementing the bare branches of a tree, the viewer reconstructs the garden in their imagination through the layered textures and colours, and the surrounding sound and video.
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Dirimart is pleased to present Gardenscapes, 脟a臒la Ulusoy鈥檚 second solo exhibition at the gallery. In this spatial installation, Ulusoy extends her artistic language into the physical environment, transforming the space to enrich the experience of her paintings. By framing the exhibition as a continuation of her visual enquiry, she invites viewers to engage directly with the sensory and conceptual essence of her work.
Ulusoy鈥檚 practice unfolds as a layered narrative that fuses traces of the everyday with a contemporary aesthetic language. The accumulation of paint on the canvas generates indeterminate spaces rooted in both individual and collective memory. Reinterpreting the imprints left by the geographies she inhabits, the artist sustains a delicate balance between abstraction and reality. Her paintings evoke the texture of ever transforming places, while images that emerge and dissolve on the surface prompt reflection on memory and time. Her distinctive use of materials mirrors her conceptual approach: by combining jute, wax, and sand with oil and acrylic, she constructs depth and textures that convey the fragility of abandoned spaces and memories. Across these layered surfaces, the convergence of Eastern and Western painterly sensibilities is revealed in her orchestration of colour and form. Simultaneously harmonious and discordant, these elements form essential parts of a visual narrative that embodies a dynamic tension between nostalgia and disorientation. Through such contrasts, Ulusoy continually disrupts and reconstructs the visual surface, opening a space for both intellectual and emotional reflection.
Gardenscapes opens with Ulusoy鈥檚 artist鈥檚 book OVERWORKED, published in May 2025, which comprises her collages interlacing different media and in dialogue with her selected works. Serving as an invitation into Ulusoy鈥檚 world, this book brings together collages made from her own photographs alongside found images, offering a deeper insight into the artist鈥檚 universe while revealing how her imagery is constructed and from which references it draws. As with the experience of OVERWORKED, the viewer in the exhibition is immersed in field of images, though this time this image-world extends into the physical domain, enveloping the audience spatially as well.
At the core of Gardenscapes lies Ulusoy鈥檚 act of creating a personal garden, composed of fragments of her inner world, traces of memory, and remnants of the everyday. Unlike traditional gardens, ordered and aestheticised, Ulusoy鈥檚 garden unsettles the distance between nature and the built environment, exposing and questioning the gulf between them. For her, the 鈥榞arden鈥� 鈥� like the surface of a painting or the screen of a phone 鈥� is sharply bounded yet intuitively and meticulously constructed, offering an alluring and fantastical site of escape. Gardenscapes greets the viewer as a space that both reveals and distorts, often unsettlingly, the boundaries between physical painting and the digital screen. This garden simultaneously draws the viewer in with the seduction of colour and repels them with its cold, desolate, and uncanny atmosphere.
Ulusoy鈥檚 garden exists both as a fictional construct and a threshold. Here, the lines between the natural and the artificial, the physical and the digital, and the real and the imagined become blurred. The viewer, caught in a state of in-betweenness, discovers the meaning of the garden most acutely within this ambiguity. Resembling a carefully arranged yet fictive structure the garden is animated by paintings that punctuate the space. Reflective surfaces evoke both water and a digital sensibility, guiding the viewer through the space even as the warmth of the paintings offer a refuge.
The exhibition culminates in a video and sound installation that brings the experience into a holistic dimension. Located in a darkened space, this final section invites the audience on a journey that is as auditory as it is visual. Like leaves complementing the bare branches of a tree, the viewer reconstructs the garden in their imagination through the layered textures and colours, and the surrounding sound and video.
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