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Press Release
Burçin Başar’s exhibition entitled “Retrace”, an exhibition of tracing the roots, can be seen at x-ist
between November 19 – December 19, 2015.
BURÇİN BAŞAR | RETRACE
Burçin Başar presents to the audience her oil paintings as well as her works produced with mixed
technique, which she created through investigations on root and identity, space and time, the
ordinary but non-existent, the interior and the exterior, earth and water, the borders where the
thought captures the space but the truth is outside, and the uncertainty of these borders.
By taking fragments from different time periods, the artist, who focuses on the trace that the
root leaves on the identity, describes the gold that people buried in the ground when they had to
leave their homes, the non-existent family portraits, the roots that they trace, the doorstep or
underground stories, the sky seen again after a long time by a fallen person or an animal.
Burçin Başar “Nonexistent Family Portraits I”, Oil on canvas, 160 x 180 cm, 2015.
The artist refers to the preparation process of 'Retrace', her first solo exhibition at x-ist, as “a
constructed production process based on reflecting upon contemporary or past, tangible or
intangible borders by retracing them, and adding subjective and somehow related stories to them
and following the traces inside the depth”.
Burçin Başar gives the last clues about the meaning that lies behind her works with the quote
from Ayça Gürdal Küey's book “Meeting the Artist: Theo Angelopoulos”: Inner borders referring
to the “necessity of one's leaving the borders of one's own identity in order to understand”...
Borders preventing the understanding that one has for the others... Invisible borders between
people, the border between life and death.”
BURÇİN BAŞAR I ISTANBUL, 1984
In 2010, Burçin Başar graduated from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Painting Department.
Between 2007 - 2008, she continued her education at National Academy of Art in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Among the exhibitions and art fairs Başar participated in are "Beginning" (Getronagan High
School Alumni Association, Istanbul, 2013), "in search for the new" (Armaggan Art & Design
Gallery, Istanbul, 2013), and "Art 7/24 - Vol. 2" (Armaggan Art & Design Gallery, 2013), "Young
Fresh Different" (cda-projects, Istanbul, 2010), "11th International Young Painters Exhibition"
(CKM, Istanbul, 2009), "Intersection V" (x-ist, Istanbul, 20134), Art14 London and Contemporary
Istanbul'10, 11, 13 & 14 art fairs. In 2013, Başar receivedhas awarded as honorable mention at
SVA (School of Visual Arts, NY) Summer Residency Scolarship program by Moon and Stars
Project.
For more information please contact Gözde Ulusoy from x-ist.
gozde@artxist.com
M. 545 357 60 70
T. 212 291 77 84