Kajal Kucukbattal

ARTIST'S STATEMENT ::
As Virginia Woolf once stated: "As a woman, I have no country. As a woman, I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world." This feeling of "˜belonging nowhere but everywhere' is the essence of my life and art. Hence every work is a new journey that I anticipate with unspeakable joy and without worrying about the destination.

My works combine elements of collage and digital photo-manipulation and digital illustration to produce dreamy images that reflect a different type of reality: My own. To me, art is breathing, taking a break from unbearable facts of the world. So that, I can transform the sorrow into a new energy form. By deconstructing, changing and combining the found images and my own photography, I aim to create a fictional imagery. This dreamy world reflects my own reactions to the facts that I personally experience, or pass by, or just observe from a distance. I describe this whole process as "˜consolation through the colors of dreams'. ///

BIO-
Kajal started her artistic life with drama. After leaving from the Istanbul Conservatory's Drama department, she moved to Izmir to study in college and act at the State Theater. There, she attended 9 Eylul University's Business Admini...