Oil and charcoal on paper, 2022

In this series, the alienation formed through the relationship between space, human, and time, and the transformation these concepts generate within the self, are examined.

The artist bids farewell to the studio she was forced to leave and to the living environment shaped around it. By photographing the workshop and its surroundings, she transfers the impact these spatial references left in her memory onto paper. By consciously excluding the human figure from these spaces, the artist emphasizes that even in the physical absence of the individual, space itself can produce a personal transformation. In this context, space is approached as a living organism—one that is shaped alongside the human factor and accumulates memories and meanings. The individual who leaves her habitat is no longer the same as before.

By depicting certain spaces through both oil painting and charcoal drawing, the artist reveals the multilayered structure of space within memory. While charcoal drawings represent the fading, fragmented, and transient nature of recollection, oil paintings offer a space reconstructed through emotional density. The reproduction of the same space through different techniques reveals not the transformation of the space itself, but that of the individual over time. Thus, space ceases to be a fixed reality and evolves into a structure that is continuously reshaped, transformed, and kept alive through memory, emotion, and time.

Just as individuals can create transformations and fractures in one another, spaces also offer a similar field of transformation for those who inhabit them. Every space and every void evokes a memory, an event, and therefore a metamorphosis within the mind. Past and present intertwine; memories overlap. In this context, the individual continuously transforms while traveling from one memory to another within the mind.