Biography:
Born in 1973 in Ankara, Arzum Onan worked as a model and photomodel after studying Building Painting. In 1993, she was declared Miss “Turkey and Europe”. She acted in TV productions including Sıcak Saatler (Hot Hours), Merdoğlu (Merdoğlu), Sahra (Sahra), Sessiz Fırtına (Silent Storm) and in the movie Aşkın İkinci Yarısı (The Second Half of Love). In 2004, she started her sculpture education with İrfan Korkmazlar and continued her education in Yunus Tonkuş's workshop between 2006 and 2018.
Manifesto:
Art needs to perceive the reflections of life; it needs to question the lived experience, the story of resistance, the ongoing life.
In my works, there are small sections from women who had to continue their lives under harsh conditions, feudal pressures or who could not hold on. At the same time, in all areas of life, I bring together with the audience a woman's voice, heart and compassion balanced with life itself, some figuratively expressed and some abstracted.
