Represented Artist

Ezgi Yakın (b.1988) completed her undergraduate education in 2010 and her master’s education in 2015 at Dokuz Eylül Fine Arts University. Ezgi Yakın’s work is based on references made up of fragments, traces and remains of architectural structures and everyday objects associated with the environment and urban experience. In her painting, photography and installation practice, she is concerned with the visual and intellectual possibilities of what is incompatible with the structural order in everyday life. While examining the whole-part, static-variable and function- dysfunction relationships, the dynamics approach between formal elements that fix and support the fluid elements come to surface. Yakın, transforms the visual aesthetics that emerged with the effects of time in the construction of place and space, designed with an intellectual and political perspective, with an alternative view that supports the imagination. The artist has joined the Kair Residency Programme in Kosice, Slovakia in 2019. She had her first solo show titled ‘Stranger Time’ in 2019 and her second solo show ‘Other Things Expected and Left Behind’ in 2023 at Simbart Projects. Yakın continues to live and work in Izmir, Turkey and represented by Simbart Projects.