Behind The Scenes
Explore the artistic process through images and insights into each artist's work. Discover the stories, inspirations, and techniques that shape our collaborative etching projects.
Ayda Demirci's Prints
...how we could incorporate a color other than black into the print. We decided to overprint an etching using a colored plate. By layering red on red, we made the color dominant and rendered the drawing less distinct. This layered structure evoked in me the feeling of observing nature...
Series of etchings by Deniz Gül
...Without entering a conceptual realm with words, following the movement of my hand and allowing the movement to organize itself resembled how cilia create movement. Thus, the initial works revolved around ideas of movement, emergence, agility, clustering, and organization...
GüneÅŸ Terkol's Etchings
...In one of the images, there's a falling star moving toward uncertainty, with a large creature advancing above it. In the other, another being awaits the night by the devil's stove. Bright yellow tones connect the two figures. The effect of the texture of a thin, translucent fabric as light was something I tried to capture in this duo—both fleeting like a cloud and permanent like an etching...
Merve Zeybek's Triptych Etching
...This triptych work is conceived as a landscape series of lakes, soil, and nature. The central six-block areas represent the sunlight every four hours of the day, adorned with thematic elements surrounding them. Lines meander around, finding their own rhythm; movements, returns, absences, and flaws come together on the blank surface to form verses of a poem within their own topography...
''The Poet Takes Himself Apart'' - Gala Bell
...These metonymic concepts, where objects change meaning, reminded the artist of something she heard about people in Adana, who were said to shoot at the sun. In the artwork, the Mayakovsky’s poet becomes the protagonist taking the place of the man in Adana who shoots at the sun...
''Airhead'' - Irmak Canevi
...Owing to our fun collaboration with Derin Print Shop, I am delighted to have discovered the rich world of printmaking as well during this period of intense experimentation in material and techniques. Our teamwork which began in the spring of 2024 culminated in an unexpected character we named “Airhead" (“Bulut Kafa”), a whimsical figure with their head in the clouds...
Tuna PektaÅŸ Archive
...Bringing together moments of daily life, PektaÅŸ collects 'found' photographs, family albums, diaries, and pocket agendas from flea markets and bibliopoles. Lately, she has been accumulating not just the image itself but also the sentences found on the backside of photographs...
