"Collective Dream" - an exhibition by Burcin Basar

Burcin Basar „Collective Dream“ painting 13.04-08.05.2022 opening: 13.04.2022, from 18:00 until 20:00

Burçin Başar, who produced her recent works with the concern of creating a new space against the pollution of visual memory, depicts her first solo exhibition in Sofia under the title "Collective Dream". The artist, who seeks an alternative approach to perception patterns based on images, deals with the positivity of the post-digital age and the increasingly widespread virtualization state in line with the relationship between ideal and reality.

The works in the "Collective Dream" exhibition; It overpowers nature as a reflex against image pollution. Başar's attitude towards images shaped by artificiality turns into a search for a new atmosphere in her works.

In the series in which the artist deals with different forms of expression in a holistic dialogue in her works, she masks the digital photographs she has taken from personal archives as visual material with manual manipulations. These masks on the artist's oil-painted canvases turn the connection between virtual and reality into a game, creating a cyclical discussion. The way of thinking questioned in the works explores the beginning and the end of the relationship between ideal and reality. At this point, the artist, who thinks that she has gone from individuality to holism, aims to emphasize "collective".

BURÇİN BAŞAR 1984, Istanbul

In 2010, Burçin Başar graduated from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Painting Department. Between 2007 and 2008, she continued her education at National Academy of Art in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Among the exhibitions and art fairs Başar participated in are “Beginning” (Getronagan High School Alumni Association, Istanbul, 2013), “in search for the new” and “Art 7/24 - Vol. 2” (Armaggan Art & Design Gallery, Istanbul, 2013), “Art Colony” Workshop & Exhibition at Galeria e Arteve Tetove (Macedonia, 2013), “Young Fresh Different” (cda-projects,Galeri Zilberman Istanbul, 2010), “11th International Young Painters Exhibition” (ckm, Istanbul, 2009), s “Intersection V” (x-ist, Istanbul, 2013), “x-tension” (Office 4200, Bursa, 2015) and ), “Variationon An Andalusian Dog” (x-ist, 2015), ’’Vektor Quantity’’ (rh+Art Project 2016) , CO2 (Mod-Ada Gallery 2017), Site Studio CerModern Ankara 2018, x-plore III gallery x-ist 2019, Untitled gallery x-ist 2020. Başar participated in Art14 London , ArtInternational 2015 and Contemporary Istanbul’10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16,17,18,19 & 21, Artweeks Akaretler 2020, 2021 . Başar had her first solo show titled ’’Retrace’’ at x-ist in 2015, ‘’Ravenous ‘’ at x-ist in 2017, ‘’Corpus’’ at x-ist in 2019, Last solo show is ‘’Counter Argument’’ at x-ist in 2021 Burçin Başar won Creative Armenia and AGBU’s 2019 artist award. In 2013, Başar received honorable mention at SVA (School of Visual Arts, NY) Summer Residency Scholarship program by Moon and Stars Project.