Artist
Hera Büyüktaşçıyan
Hera Büyüktaşçıyan locates the figure of the other between the twinned spectres of absence and invisibility in order to weave connections between identity, memory, space and time. She works as a storyteller, integrating metaphors from her Greek-Armenian roots, Turkish myths, historic and iconographic elements to open up new narrative scopes. Water is a recurring theme in her practice, referring to what the artist understands as the fluid, aquatic nature of memory. Her most recent works enquire into the meaning of ‘absence’ within collective memory. There is a focus on urban transformation and the disappearance, invisibility and sense of isolation it causes.