Seza Paker
Seza Paker’s conceptual practice is characterized by a way of thinking; her art is fluid, discursive and poetic. Manifesting a fundamental commitment to openness as an aesthetic and philosophical position, Paker employs a wide variety of expressive forms including installation, photography, film, sound, collage, drawing and more.
Her works and exhibitions can be understood as collections of intertwining threads of thoughts and lines of enquiries and proposals, articulated as images, sounds and sensations that flow side by side, sometimes eliding, sometimes evading each other, the dynamics structured through techniques of metaphor, association, juxtaposition and suggestion, all of which serve to cultivate and sustain an ambiguous relationship between form and content throughout.
Recent solo shows include; “Passing By”, Galerist, Istanbul (2019); “Absinthe”, Galerist, Istanbul (2015); “Sea of Tranquillity”, Galerist, Istanbul (2012); “Ecology IV”, Şekerbank Açık Ekran, Istanbul (2012); “Untitled (How Are You?)”, Galerist, Istanbul (2006); “Camouflage”, Galerist, Istanbul (2002); “To Begin with: Different Approaches to Drawing”, Kasa, Istanbul (2001). The group exhibitions and biennials include “Cartography”, Istanbul (2020); “What Time Is It?”, Arter, Istanbul (2019); “Seven Questions for Asia”, Kuandu Biennale, Taipei (2018); “Murmuring”, Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana (2017); “Encounters: Turkish Contemporary Art in Korea”, ARA Art Square, Seoul (2012); TRANSİT, Passage de Retz, Paris (2010); “Variations Continues”, le Crédac, Lvry-sur-Seine (2009); and “Paradoxe in Identity”, 2nd International Art Biennial of Buenos Aires (2002). Seza Paker lives and works in Nice and İstanbul.