Burcu Perçin’s 6th solo exhibition, “Mural Domination”, will be on view at art ON the Gallery from March 8 to April 8.
In her oil paintings, Burcu Perçin creates entirely new spatial concepts by synthesizing photographs of interior and exterior spaces collected during her travels across different countries, regions, and cities. In her new series, “Mural Domination”, she addresses how people claim spaces by painting or writing on walls and their attempts to assert their own authority.
The spaces Perçin transfers to canvas emerge as unified locations through the collage of various photographs she has taken. These unified spaces include a war-damaged and burnt factory in Beirut, a theater building destroyed during the war yet retaining an intriguing architectural character even in ruins, and traces of a 550-year-old abandoned industrial structure from the Ottoman era in Edirne.
Perçin explains her works in the “Mural Domination” series as follows:
“The main difference between the paintings in this series and my previous works is the emergence of graffiti on the walls of the spaces I designed. I incorporated imagery, figures, writings, and new interpretations inspired by graffiti I encountered in streets or interiors.
These spaces, once bustling with people who began work there with great hopes, were abandoned due to their inability to adapt to today’s changing global conditions. Their current state evokes feelings of emptiness, loss, and solitude. The presence of graffiti in these deserted, abandoned places captured my attention and excitement.
In this series, “Mural Domination”, I aimed to explore how unknown individuals, through painting and writing on walls, in a way claim ownership of these spaces and express their own authority.”