Damla Özdemir

Damla Özdemir, born in 1984 in İstanbul, has lived in İstanbul for her entire life. Even when her family decided to move to a village in Abant, she couldn’t leave the city. She read a lot, painted a lot and had a quite fast childhood.

She graduated from departments of Advertising and Motion Pictures-Television. In her university life of 5 years she met stop motion animation and digital arts. Having started to be closely interested in these issues, she knew what she had to do. Nevertheless not giving up on traditional, she took lessons of basic design in Mahir Güven’s atelier.

With the visuals she has been collecting for the last 4 years thanks to the infinitude of Internet, she produces her works of collage in digital platforms. When analyzing her process of production, one can clearly see the impacts of science fiction novels she has been reading, and of avant-garde and constructiviste works.
It is apparent that in her recent epoch productions, the artist, clipping the unreachability of digital, has been using 3D materials that can be touched and felt.
This sharp transformation from abstract to concrete is identified basically with her movements in accordance with existentialism and absurdisme. Starting from the centre, she creates productions and deliberate meanings with movements of disintegration, incarceration, restraint, dedifferentiation, repetition and innovation.

Submitted by Galerie Les Plumes