A Hall is hosting Derya Yıldız’s painting exhibition titled “Memory’s Impression” between September 27 and October 12, 2024. In this exhibition, which focuses on contemporary women, Derya Yıldız will bring together social and individual memory and offer viewers a profound artistic experience.
Born in Ankara in 1971, Derya Yıldız graduated from the Gazi Faculty of Education, Department of Painting and Crafts Teaching with honors and worked as a visual arts instructor in addition to her art work. The artist, who has opened seventeen solo exhibitions to date, has taken part in national and international art fairs and has introduced her works to art lovers in many group exhibitions. Yıldız’s recent works consist of works that emphasize how women harmonize their own existence with contemporary life. She depicts the power and existence of contemporary women on canvas with metaphors of color, light and sound.
In the exhibition “Projection of Memory”, Derya Yıldız addresses the projections of individual and social memory and transfers the traces of the past to her canvas with a contemporary approach. While the artist blends the life of women with metaphors of color, light and sound in her paintings, she also takes the viewer on a deep intellectual journey. Yıldız sheds a contemporary light on the depths of the past by combining the overshadowed memories of social memory and the memories that are about to fade with her own artistic perspective.
This exhibition is an internal questioning by the artist on the transformation of memory and time. Each work creates a visual language that appeals to both the artist’s personal past and the viewer’s own memories. Yıldız emphasizes her belief in the permanence of painting and that memory is a guide in art, especially while expressing that we are all actually chasing our shadows in the “world of the visible”. Viewers will find deep traces of personal and collective memory in the works in the exhibition.
“Memory’s Projection” is an exhibition that reflects the essence of Derya Yıldız’s understanding of art, offering both emotional and intellectual depth. In this exhibition, art lovers will come face to face with the power of memory, femininity and art in a world where the past and present are intertwined...
In the interview with Derya Yıldız, the artist expressed these about her exhibition.
The rapid change in the visual culture of our age is changing human nature as well as transforming the nature of art. What memory implies determines the daily flow of a person beyond their own artistic journey. Although we conceive of the journeys of our memory/memories to the past as memories; they are actually second personalities walking beside us on our individual journeys.
In this context, I have always believed that painting is what is permanent, in addition to the visual images flowing from today’s cultural transmission tools. I perceive the comprehensive aspect of art, which is the mythological projection of memory, as a social layer.
In the ‘world of the visible’, we are all actually chasing our shadows. It would be right to read my entire understanding of art on this basis.
In this exhibition, I have tried to combine the memories that are about to be erased in our memories with my own past and transfer them to the canvas. In this sense, these paintings are the photographic memory of a journey I have always wanted to take.
Address: Gallery Soyut:
Yıldızevler Mah. Şehit Mustafa Doğan Cad. 82/A-B Gallery Soyut, Çankaya, Ankara