EMEL KARAKOZAK
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AN ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Emel Karakozak adds an emotional aspect by maintaining a sharp sensitivity against human disorder, and forms pure images reflecting her inner voice. The body is a shelter and the first example of an inner world is a language. Karakozak perceives the uncanny as the alienation of human from the self. In this sense, she upholds both the familiar and the unease arising from the revelation of the hidden. Karakozak approaches her works as existing somewhere between reality and unreality. In other words, her work occupies the purgatory of painting and photography, an obscure world where the boundaries of reality and unreality are blurred. Karakozak desires to create a disappointment with the whiteness by highlighting the concepts of emptiness and absence in fictional human bodies. The figure exists at a passage between the inner and outer worlds. The effect of silence formed by the white and gray tones and the lonely figures in the emptiness are strangely both peaceful and disturbing. Karakozak, through the inner patterns inside the whiteness, creates a ghost of what they mean to us and draws the unheard voices to the mind’s patterns. The bodies are consumed and reshaped in the same place, bringing out a desperation by alienating the self from the trauma created by the congestion. Existence of an unease at the center of the artwork crystallizes into a power that can reshape everything. The work allows viewers to create their own connections and associations, and to gain a new perspective from within the images. Karakozak names her work as “a change in her language” and wants to speak with the viewers’ language, leaving the bodies to the experience of them.
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Volume 17 • 2022
