“Türkan Oya Ekmekci Geronymakis makes intensive use of the phenomena of research, archival documentation, and discovery in her artistic practice. In her series entitled ‘Fossils’, she synthesizes the two disciplinary relationships between architecture and painting, as well as her personal artistic intuition, and initiates an experimental research project on a two-dimensional paper surface. While employing a technical approach to drawing, characterised by precise and defined lines on the surface, she simultaneously creates a ritualistic stain between soft transitions and dense, solid traces by enabling the randomness inherent in the sketch. This meditative and performative process of researching fossil traces on paper reveals the remnants of the past by the act of excavation. The series of ‘Fossils’ addresses the fundamental aspects of existence, namely the id, and brings the most secret desires and silent discoveries to the surface during a meditative drawing. The concepts of the past, history, intuition, mind, and nature are transformed from a two-dimensional surface into words and traces, with the viewer as a lasting narrative of a fleeting moment in time.“
Melike Bayık, Curator and art writer
*2024, Original text written in Turkish as part of the Montag Artist Residency