I was born and raised in Istanbul, and relocated to London in 2018. I am at the early stages of an academic career, researching alternative frameworks for theorising contemporary art, feminism and photography in Visual Cultures. I hold an MA in History of Art from University College London with distinction and a BA in Fine Art and History of Art from Goldsmiths, UoL.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
I am a full-time lecturer in Art & Design teaching Visual Culture to Foundation students in London College of Contemporary Arts. With a background in art-making, my work experience extends to facilitating crits and outreach projects in universities and as part of galleries’ public programs. I was awarded a Junior Fellowship ('22-23) to assist in teaching Extension Year students at Goldsmiths in the Fine Art Department. I am interested in mediation as a critical device in relation to photography’s role in counter-memorialising state violence across borders, which is the focus of my paper that was selected for the 5th edition of Archivo's International Conference. In April 2024, I co-convened the session "Shifting Grounds: Landscape and Cultural Practice in Latin America" at the 50th Association for Art History Conference. This was based on a strand of my research into the legacies of colonialism in Latin American art. Previously, I delivered the opening presentation of the 2022 Intercollegiate Art History Symposium at University of Chicago,"Penelope in the Present," discussing the subversive potential of weaving as a form of performed thought. I am currently developing a project that examines how contemporary testimonial narratives in moving image operate strategically not only to diagnose but also to destabilise socio-cultural and political hegemonies. It will take a comparative/connective, decolonial methodological approach to case studies of (post)conflict landscapes from the Middle East, Latin America and their diasporas.
