Nefes / Breath (Triptych) Artwork

Interdisciplinary artist Neriman works across photography, painting, writing, performance, mixed media, textile, installation, and collage. Born in Istanbul in 1997 and raised in Ankara, she began her artistic journey with painting at an early age. As a child, she won the International Ankara Nezih Danyal Cartoon Award with a piece focusing on the climate crisis. In her youth, she engaged with social issues, working as a photojournalist for Turkey’s first ecology newspaper and contributing to print and online media on sustainable living. She also participated in various local platforms producing projects on art and gender studies. During this period, she explored abstract painting and writing, publishing poetry and articles in independent local publications while performing happenings and performance art in Ankara. Moving to Istanbul for her studies, she pursued a degree in Radio, Television, and Cinema at Istanbul University. During this time, she deepened her practice in photography, performance, and text-based works, while also expanding into mixed media and new media. Currently, she spends half of the year in Istanbul and the other half in rural areas. She continues working on pieces that reimagine traditional wall tapestries through a contemporary perspective. Her practice incorporates textiles, wood, body, pigments, plastic, and paper. She merges the point, line, pixel, texture, presence, and absence of images within an abstract dimension. Her works exist in the fluid states of becoming, completion, or ongoing transformation—sometimes open to witnessing, sometimes concealed. Her dyslexia, synesthesia, and atypical neurology play a significant role in her creative process. As an Alevi, Turkish-Kurdish, queer woman artist, social issues remain central to her artistic exploration.