Born in 1979 in Ankara, Burcu Gökçek graduated with BFA from Pratt Institute of New York.

 

Burcu creates works that deal with different aspects of everyday life. She works across both painting, sculpture and video to present subtle poetic verses on seemingly insignificant daily actions.

Her observational works often reflect on idyllic and domestic interiors and spaces with uncanny tensions. Within Burcu’s work there is a strong representation of conditio humana, as well as commonplace feelings and emotions. She explores the idea of feeling lost or as a stranger even in the most familiar situations. In this manner she addresses our solitude, social and individual displacement, as well as the relationship between the individual and the collective.

Her paintings have no ostensible narratives but are more like film stills, a suggestion for a storyboard, in which the viewer fills the details before, after and between each composition.
 

 

‘Text by Necmi Sönmez.’