Genre Series: The Object Of Femininity In Turkey. Genre painting is defined in the genre of art history literature as the productions made with paint on canvas that present the daily life shaped in the home space to the viewer. I take my dynamics from standing against the traditionalism in which genre painting associates assigned female figures with a specific space or a specific job description. I question the visual transformation of the feminine objects in the house sites in Turkey as a visual theme for the idiom “Latch string is always out” or “You have a place on my head,” which is an attitude of tolerance in Turkish tradition with linguistic integration. I try to associate my personal impressions with objects I randomly find in Istanbul during my photography production. In terms of production attitude, I reproach the planned creation of the traditional notion with the flow, present the idea of having defined sexual identities in the flow metaphorically, and aim to invite people to think about objects.
About Berk Kır
Berk Kır (b. 1997, Istanbul) graduated from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Art History department in 2019. He produces in the field of photography. He continues to live and produce as an independent researcher and artist in Istanbul. Subjects such as body, conceptual thinking, image theory and gender are among the subjects he is prone to. His work have been published in National Geographic Your Shot, Vogue Italia Online, Apple Inc, Flickr Global. He is among the rising artists with the Center of Contemporary Artist 2020 edition supported by the Pino Pascali Museum Foundation. Currently, he is brand ambassador of Samsung Turkey.
Artist Statement
Berk Kır contains an intervention that goes against the flow of life in his photographs. Instead of photographing the events taking place in the course of time, he mounts the moments with a common sense approach he has created himself there. He supports the compositions he will create with the objects he finds by taking long distance walks centered on Istanbul, the city he lives in. By rejecting the techniques of photography, he goes after the moments that he finds closest to his reality. The artist develops approaches to emotional transitions and contemporary problems by focusing the relationship between human body, space and object.
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