The Act is Beauty

• Prize
• Photographer
  Dilek Ozturk, Turkey
• Studio
  TASARIM VAKFI ISTANBUL

Space, memory and senses.
The physical environment leaves traces on our senses and
memory.

Photography artist Dilek Öztürk presents her first solo
exhibition “The Act is Beauty” where she focuses on the traces
based on senses and memory of the spatial experience.

“The act is beauty” focuses on the traces based on senses and
the memory of the spatial experience. The photographer keeps
on searching for an aesthetic that arouse a feeling of sameness
in different cities of the world, both in a coincidental and
fictional way.

Dilek Öztürk personalizes her own spatial experience and puts
herself within the urban texture. This continuos behavior within
the serie is based on the drive of breaking or building an order
in the space. The color, scale and the similarity concept in the
space follows each other in different references in different
cities.

The coincidental and fictional flow of the project turns into a
guerilla movement with entering public and private spaces
without authorization, setting up a tripod and shooting herself
with self timer. This situation also inspires the name of the
project: The act is beauty.

Awards AWARDS AND INTERVIEWS
Cumhuriyet Newspaper - interview about “inside-outside” photography project, January 2014 XOXO Magazine Interview about skin-alike project, March 2013 “Water-colored city” serie entered DEMSA Collection Turkey, 2012.
Definitive Touch Magazine-Interview about “inside-outside” series, 2011 Design You Trust Magazine, Interview about “inside-outside” series, 2011 Moleskine Detour Project / Designing a City Book for Istanbul- Selected Project, 2008
ELLE Turkey August 2010-Interview Trendsetter Magazine, April 2009-Creative Pages Le cool Istanbul Magazine-Selected 190, 191, 192 , Interview and Cover

EXHIBITIONS
“How coincidental is the coincidental” Solo Exhibition in Lomography Gallery Istanbul, January 2014 “Scope” Group Exhibition in Miami ArtBasel, December 2013 “Record” Group Exhibition, MIXER Galllery, October 2013
“Rehearsal III” Group Exhibition, RenArt Gallery, September 2013 Exposure Awards 2013 Exhibition in New York, July 2013 “Vadim O Kadar Yeşildi ki” Group Exhibition, March 2013 Edisyon-Newcomers Group Exhibition-“skin alike” series, 2012 “City in Layers” Moleskine notebook, special edition. Exhibited in santralistanbul, June 2009
Libéra Universita di Bolzano, Art and Design Faculity Semester Projects Exhibition / Modern Offerings (January 2009) TRACK Audio Visual Photography Exhibition, March 2011