As we work, we are in motion, in action. When this process comes to an end, we find ourselves in a state of waiting. Waiting becomes life itself, just as thinking coexists in parallel with the body and the world around us. Thoughts in constant motion try to set in motion the process of renewal, acting as a growth factor.

Thinker

When we create our personal reality, we create our own subjective myth of what we choose from our own past and the meaning of our existence through this myth.
This series, studies the personal experience of living in the Crimea for the period of political events in 2014, in parallel with the experience of my grandmother during World War II through the figure of Joseph Beuys. These studies, which are intertwined with the Beuys myth, invite the viewer to explore the form of individual perception with collective memory, the factors that influence this process, cultural heritage, the dual orientation of realities, and the layers of our personal history.

Albina Onay