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Dismantled

2023
Materials: oil on canvas
5 см x 30 см
Category: painting
Item Number: 019746
400 000
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About the Artist

Ebru Duruman was born in 1992 in Istanbul, Turkey. Currently lives and works in Geneva Switzerland. Graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA (2015). Participant of The Art Students League of New York, USA (2017-2019). Awarded Honorary Art Award, ENKA (Istanbul, 2011). Participated in a group exhibition in Peabody Essex Museum (PEM GALA), Boston, USA (2018). Solo and group exhibitions have taken place in the UK, USA, Turkey, France and Switzerland. Participated in the Frieze Art Fair, London (2022), The Armory Show, New York, USA (2023), Contemporary Istanbul, Istanbul (2023), Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong (2023, 2024).

Ebru Duruman was born and raised in a conservative environment in Istanbul, Turkey. A self-driven rebellious journey towards awareness and acceptance of her body led the artist to explore sexuality and the culture of love. The abrupt transition from her early works with clenched, lifeless figures to the liberation of the nude body shows Ebru Duruman's journey and her struggle against social norms for the right to express her individuality. Many of the artist's works are self-portraits that reflect her sensual experience.

The images of Ebru Duruman's paintings hover between figurative depictions of the female body and abstraction expressing swirls of emotion. The artist seeks to depict the sensation of sexuality as a transitional state between body and mind. At the same time, her works are characterized by sometimes harsh expression: distorted forms, twisted compositions, interrupted aggressive strokes combined with smooth lines. As the artist herself puts it: "The interaction of people consuming each other sexually and emotionally exposes pleasure and pain simultaneously".