Funda Gül Özcan

Born in Germany (1984) resident at the Rijksacademie, Amsterdam

Detail of 'My White Horse is Sick', 2017
Multimedia diorama, 230 x 154 x 87 cm

Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij 'My White Horse is Sick', 2017
Multimedia diorama, 230 x 154 x 87 cm

Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij Overview of the exhibition 'Shifting Optics IV', April 2017, Upstream Gallery

left: 'My White Horse is Sick', 2017
Multimedia diorama, 230 x 154 x 87 cm

right: Jacques Perconte, 'l'Écume du phare, sans titre no2, ppremier enregistrement', 2016

Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij
Funda Gül Özcan
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Biography

Funda Gül Özcan studied fine arts at the Fina Art Academie Munich and is currently a resident artist at the Rijksacademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. With her sculptures and video installations, Özcan tracks down the literary structure and linguistic precision of a poem, transferring its projective nature visually into space. The resulting multimedia installations and diorama's connect sound, writing, sculptures and video, in which the video becomes three-dimensional through a system of reflections. 

Her visual poems display a huge number of images and while the material is randomly layered, it is all directly interrelated. The stanzas of her poem can be read as a complete whole. A multitude of forms triggers the viewer to imagine the connections in this sculptural storyboard but also to experience them synchronically. With her work, Özcan conveys a new uncompromising visual language.

Exhibitions

Shifting Optics IV

25 Mar - 7 May '17
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