Asli Vural
Disruption 1, Istanbul, 2012. Acrylic on canvas, 130 cm by 160 cm.
Aslı Vural’s works depict the modern life as it is reflected in the chaos of the city and the person imprisoned in the city life. The dichotomy between panic attacks and commercial billboards, antidepressants and dieticians, solariums and gyms, yoga and organic food is telling. Vural’s series Disruption, takes the human being in the metropolis as a dualistic starting point. This process claiming to be the architect of our lives, consumes the nature so-called-nature-friendly green buildings” are erected at full speed, ecology being deliberately destroyed, forests being devoured by the sprawling cities symbolizing the new order of things. At its core, this is segmentation, fragmentation and decomposition, and one craves to acquire a place in this new paradigm. The artist moves architectural imprinting and creates surfaces that are parts of a whole extending to infinity tracing marks on the canvas with paint. The chaos, darkness and void leftover from the destruction of nature stack over each other as transparent layers. The metropolis representing happiness, anger, ecstasy, panic, horror and chaos while concurrently being dynamic, exciting, free and creative, are reflected in Vural’s works as silhouettes of the city where she lives and works. aslivural.com
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