Residents

Medine Irak

Ayvalık, August 2020

Medine Irak (1983) received her bachelor’s, master’s and proficiency in art degrees from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Painting Department between 2001-2015. In her practice, she deals with the resistance of man against nature and the chaos created by this resistance. Her works, produced in series using various materials, depict the historical images in the collective memory and the associations of these images; along with the effects of processes that are completely intertwined in this chaotic atmosphere, often with surreal elements and fantastic fictions. Documenting the production process with photography is a part of her production process. Her recent works focus on identifying the role of labor on the axis continuity and change; and determining what role the cultural industries play on labor.

Medina Irak’s Instagram page.

Click to see Medine Irak’s work in the Gate 27 Collection.