Represented Artist
Esin Aykanat Avcı (b. 1986, Ankara) graduated from the Department of American Culture and Literature at Hacettepe University in 2009. Following her graduation, she participated in a three-month work camp in France as part of the European Voluntary Service Program, where she worked in a ceramics workshop. Upon returning to Turkey in 2010, she was admitted to the Master’s Program in the Ceramics Department at Hacettepe University’s Faculty of Fine Arts. She completed her thesis research in Wales at UWIC Cardiff School of Art and Design through an Erasmus Scholarship and graduated in 2013. In 2014, she began the Proficiency in Art Program in the Ceramics Department at Hacettepe University.During the 2017–2018 academic year, she conducted her dissertation research under the guidance of Asst. Prof. David Meyer, a sculptor, in Newark, Delaware, USA, supported by a Fulbright Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant. She received her Profiency in Arts in 2021.
Her work spans process-oriented installations, sculptures, videos, land art, and bio-art, drawing inspiration from the interaction between humans and nature and the possibility of physically reuniting with it. She has participated in national and international exhibitions. Her projects, which emerge from the interaction between clay and its elemental components—water and soil—are shaped by an exploration of the place of nature in urban life. These works have evolved as she sought ways to break free from anthropocentric lifestyles and habits, physically blending into her surroundings through various methods.
This perspective, focused on the possibility of reuniting physically with nature, has led her to develop a more sincere approach to the natural world—not as a place to visit or escape to but as an integral part of our existence. Her exploration has extended into laboratory environments, where she investigates and experiences these ideas through new scientific methods.
