Elif Avsar
I refer my whole work as my own toys. They are part of the “dystopian toys” collection and my main notion is dystopia. The main reason why I started to deal with the theme: The human kind has a vision of utopia in many works and philosophical thoughts, which examine the social structures, on the time scale from the beginning of its existence continuing to the future. But all the negative outcomes of the age I live in – like ecological destruction, wars, so on- reminds me of the term“dystopia”. I choose my materials from junk materials, which are the unnecessary objects of the ideology of modernism also resulting from a social positioning. I construct all my works like I play with toys, through that I try to bring art and game into the dystopia subject. In one sense all of them are processed with the questions and concerns how the human kind creates its existence.“Insomnia/Dystopian Self Portrait” is a kind of human who has own thinking rhythm from dystopian times.The subject of dystopia, utopia and heterotopia must be observed with recent conjuncture and political scenarios minor and major. Surely every person observes their own dystopia, impossibility, and actuates their own possible intentions.
She was born in Turkey, 1983. She was graduated from BA and MA degree in Department of Sculpture, Hacettepe University with the thesis titled “Cosmic Home Installations”. Her Phd study is still in progress in the same department. She participated several group exibitions with different art works. Her major inspirations are French Underground Literature, 19th. Century Poetry, Arte Povera, Dystopias and Noir Jazz, Biological Evolution, Playing Games.
