Aslı İrhan
With its ability to symbolize complex abstractions in concrete forms, art has a unique potential to create awareness and facilitate mindset change for our survival and well-being. However, we should resist the tendency to believe that there is only one tactic or one way to effect change. We need multiple tools and different methods to reach diverse audiences. The artists' popular and free images enable them to imagine situations and consequences beyond boundaries. Art always reflects the conditions in which it is produced, just as it can add visual shocks and subtle impulses to traditional knowledge with its diverse and free perspective. According to İrhan, who trusts in the freedom and transformative power of art, distinctions such as materials, techniques, and themes are not of interest. It is possible to have an art form that speaks of the power of being together, establishes connections, and calls us to relate, using art as a means to explore ourselves and establish a broader meaning and purpose.
Sculptor Aslı İrhan was born in Bursa in 1983. She completed her primary, secondary, and high school education in the same city. She began her art education at the Sculpture Department of Anadolu University Faculty of Fine Arts in 2001. In 2007, she completed her undergraduate education, and in 2013, she completed her master's education at the same institution with a thesis titled "The Influence of Mathematics and Geometry on Sculpture Art." Since 2015, she has been continuing her education in the Art Proficiency Program at Marmara University Institute of Fine Arts, Sculpture Department. In recent years, the artist has focused on "political ecological art" and continues her thesis work within this framework.
