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Özgün Geometri Bükme Tekniği: Geometri, Evrim ve Felsefe
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Istanbul-based visual artist Elif Çiftçioğlu creates extraordinary worlds through the repetitive use of geometric lines and forms. Her artistic practice focuses on sociopolitical and environmental issues through a science-fiction lens. She embraces an improvisational approach to production, combining different technologies with traditional techniques.
Çiftçioğlu expresses herself through video art, painting, and digital production, occasionally developing an iconographic visual language within her work. By bringing together different media, she constructs imaginative, sometimes ironic and philosophical worlds that invite the viewer to experience them and discover fragments of themselves across different layers of time.
Her work raises questions about classification, distinctions, equality, our ways of living, and the ways in which we perceive the world. She creates imagery, forms, and neutral colour palettes that often reflect diversity.
She explores connections between traditional art forms and different disciplines, investigating ways of bringing these practices into a contemporary context and reinterpreting tradition from the perspective of the future.
Through this process, she seeks to develop new aesthetics and open them up to interpretation.
Through her original Geometric Warping Technique, she has developed a distinctive method of creating and manipulating geometric forms digitally.
the cockerel, 2025
İstanbullu görsel sanatçı Elif Çiftçioğlu, geometrik
çizgilerin ve formların tekrara dayalı kullanımıyla olağanüstü dünyalar yaratır. Sanatsal pratiğinde, sosyopolitik ve çevresel meselelere bilimkurgu yaklaşımıyla odaklanır; farklı teknolojiler ve geleneği bir araya getiren füzyon teknikler ile emprovizeye dayalı bir üretim süreci benimser.
Çiftçioğlu; video sanatı, resim ve dijital üretimler aracılığıyla
kendini ifade eder ve çalışmalarında zaman zaman ikonografik bir görsel dil kurar. Farklı mecraları bir arada kullanarak, izleyicinin deneyimleyebileceği ve zamanın farklı katmanlarında kendinden parçalar bulabileceği; hayal gücü yüksek, bazen ironik ve felsefi dünyalar inşa eder.
Çalışmaları; sınıflandırmalar, ayrımlar, eşitlik, yaşam
biçimlerimiz ve dünyayı algılama biçimimiz üzerine sorular
ortaya koyar. Özellikle çeşitliliği yansıtan imgeler, formlar,
tarafsız renkler ortaya çıkarır.
Geleneksel sanatların farklı disiplinleriyle ilişki kurar; bu alanları çağdaşlaştırmanın ve geleneği geleceğin perspektifinden yeniden yorumlamanın,
farklı estetikler çıkartıp onları yoruma açmanın yollarını
araştırır.
Özgün geometri bükme tekniği ile bilgisayar ortamında yarattığı bir teknik ortaya koymuştur.
the cockerel, 2025
Exhibitions
2004, Young Talents and Their Masters, Painting and Drawing Exhibition, TUYAP 14th.
Istanbul Art Fair, attended with dry pastel painting, 100x200cm, Istanbul
2004, Following My Dreams, Painting Exhibition, Fass ART Gallery, Sabancı University, attended with dry pastel painting, 100x200cm, Istanbul
2012, Barış Manço Kültür Merkezi, İkametgah Kadıköy Exhibition, attended with ink drawing, 50x70cm, Istanbul
2013, Cow Illustration Festival, attended with three digital illustrations, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine
2016, Halka Art Project, Arası Exhibition, attended with digital artwork prints, Istanbul
2018, Sanat Gezgini Kuruçeşme, semi- solo exhibition, exhibited edition fine artprints and glass works, Istanbul
2019, LaVisione Art Gallery, Soul Breeze Exhbition, attended with edition fine artprint, 50x70cm, Istanbul
2019, Open House, Colours of Art Exhibition, attended as an art performer and with edition fine artprints, Bodrum
2023, Rome International Art Fair, Medina Art Gallery, with ‘Red Wings’, fine artprint, 100x50cm
2024, From Sketches to Pixels: Anatolia Edition, video art, Cappadocia
2026, solo Ebru Exhibition, Kadıköy Kültür Sanat Evi, Istanbul
Press-Book Projects
2009, article on theatre play 'i exist' played in Adelaide Fringe Festival
2016, Contemporaray Art of Excellence, Volume II, digital artwork prints
2018, Digital Artworks of Elif Ciftcioglu, artist book printed one edition - including the artworks of self 2011-2018
2020, Bant Mag, online platform, artist's digital artworks
2024, Underground Art & Design, UAAD.art, interview about Living, Botanic & Eco-Ocean Series
2026, manifold- Kadraj
Awards
2009, International Postgraduate Coursework Award, VCA, Melbourne
2015, History and Cultural Heritage Unity’s Jury Special Award for
Seljuk Civilization Museum (worked as Visual Communication Designer in Tetrazon)
2021, Honorable Mention, Postane (NGO) art contest, Istanbul
