ARSLAN SÜKAN
2DArslan Sükan (Ankara, 1973) completed his undergraduate education at Bilkent University, Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design. Then, he studied photography at New York's School of Visual Arts. He continued to work as an architect in New York until 2008. In 2009, he won an award at the New York Photo Festival. The artist's works have been exhibited in leading museums, galleries and events in Turkey and around the world. Sükan currently continues his work in New York and Istanbul.
Arslan Sükan focuses on ideas that question and examine the limits of human perception; A versatile artist who ponders the boundaries between the physical and virtual world, the visible and the invisible. His works position him as a narrator who challenges concepts. In his works, the artist brings a new perspective to the concept of dimension by transforming the spatial analyzes he has acquired from the basis of architecture into photography. Playing with the perception of depth on a two-dimensional plane, Sükan aims to go beyond the limits of perception, which are becoming increasingly sharp in today's world, and capture images of endless possibilities by creating uncertain spaces and times. The artist makes interventions in the digital environment after scanning the negatives of the photographs he took using traditional techniques. Thus, by keeping alive the questions of what is present and what is a constructed, artificial reality in the forms of representation that play a role in perceiving time and space in his works, he invites the viewer to dream of unlimited possibilities with the abstract expressions he creates.
2018, Public on paper, personal exhibition, Öktem Aykut Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2015, While You Are Surfing, solo exhibition, Five Eleven, New York, USA
2013, IntheVisible, personal exhibition, Galerist, Istanbul, Türkiye
2013, The Sea is My Land, group exhibition, MAXXI, Rome, Italy
2011, Few meters away from the mood, solo exhibition, Batagianni Gallery, Athens, Greece
2009, New York Photography Award the FestivalLu, New York, USA
Arslan Sükan (Ankara, 1973) completed his undergraduate education at Bilkent University, Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design. Then, he studied photography at New York's School of Visual Arts. He continued to work as an architect in New York until 2008. In 2009, he won an award at the New York Photo Festival. The artist's works have been exhibited in leading museums, galleries and events in Turkey and around the world. Sükan currently continues his work in New York and Istanbul.
Arslan Sükan focuses on ideas that question and examine the limits of human perception; A versatile artist who ponders the boundaries between the physical and virtual world, the visible and the invisible. His works position him as a narrator who challenges concepts. In his works, the artist brings a new perspective to the concept of dimension by transforming the spatial analyzes he has acquired from the basis of architecture into photography. Playing with the perception of depth on a two-dimensional plane, Sükan aims to go beyond the limits of perception, which are becoming increasingly sharp in today's world, and capture images of endless possibilities by creating uncertain spaces and times. The artist makes interventions in the digital environment after scanning the negatives of the photographs he took using traditional techniques. Thus, by keeping alive the questions of what is present and what is a constructed, artificial reality in the forms of representation that play a role in perceiving time and space in his works, he invites the viewer to dream of unlimited possibilities with the abstract expressions he creates.
2018, Public on paper, personal exhibition, Öktem Aykut Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2015, While You Are Surfing, solo exhibition, Five Eleven, New York, USA
2013, IntheVisible, personal exhibition, Galerist, Istanbul, Türkiye
2013, The Sea is My Land, group exhibition, MAXXI, Rome, Italy
2011, Few meters away from the mood, solo exhibition, Batagianni Gallery, Athens, Greece
2009, New York Photography Award the FestivalLu, New York, USA
