Nil IlkbasaranNil Ilkbasaran

Title thesis:
Spaces As Installations
Exploring its characteristics and potencies

Subject:
The research starts off with a fascination on empty architectural spaces that are intact but not in function and explores this as a form of art. It examines the practices in Spaces as Installations since 1970’s under four topics: The objecthood, the materiality, the site specificity and the potencies. The emphasis of the research lies in the conceptual use of the space, yet always with a reference to physical, experiential and social awareness through the body.

Questioning what is taken for granted, and breaking the formal order of things is the essence of the work of Nil Ilkbasaran. Architectural empty spaces and their materiality function are her medium. She makes interventions to destabilise these spaces, preferably by utilising their pre-existing materials. Her work evokes annoyance as well
as visual attractiveness and
seeks heterotopias, juxtaposing
incompatible spaces in one. Although conceptual by nature, her work manifests itself as a physical, bodily experience for the viewer. She applies the visual research not only in her spatial interventions, but also in her photography.

Nil Ilkbasaran, born in Istanbul Turkey, lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Title thesis:
Spaces As Installations
Exploring its characteristics and potencies

Subject:
The research starts off with a fascination on empty architectural spaces that are intact but not in function and explores this as a form of art. It examines the practices in Spaces as Installations since 1970’s under four topics: The objecthood, the materiality, the site specificity and the potencies. The emphasis of the research lies in the conceptual use of the space, yet always with a reference to physical, experiential and social awareness through the body.

Questioning what is taken for granted, and breaking the formal order of things is the essence of the work of Nil Ilkbasaran. Architectural empty spaces and their materiality function are her medium. She makes interventions to destabilise these spaces, preferably by utilising their pre-existing materials. Her work evokes annoyance as well
as visual attractiveness and
seeks heterotopias, juxtaposing
incompatible spaces in one. Although conceptual by nature, her work manifests itself as a physical, bodily experience for the viewer. She applies the visual research not only in her spatial interventions, but also in her photography.

Nil Ilkbasaran, born in Istanbul Turkey, lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands