Mehmet Sıddık Turan
I work with madness, laughter, and disgust; the three mischievous children, and the main concepts of the grotesque. With these images and forms, I think that people and societies put a serious emphasis on the tragic aspect of the criticized subject by creating a persistent language with repetitive forms against the hierarchy of flaws. The forms of these three elements in question point to an ambiguous nature in visual arts for me; it is cheerful and triumphant with destructive humor, also cynical and imitative while dominant.