Burcu Perçin, 1979

Born in 1979 in Ankara, Burcu Perçin graduated from the Mimar Sinan University Painting Department in 2002.

Perçin usually works with oil on canvas and deals with vacant industrial sites. Objects and figures, which appeared in the artist’s earlier work, have now disappeared from her compositions. Perçin depicts these abandoned sites with her trademark brush strokes, vigorous and distinct. Interiors, industrial sites, factories, warehouses, train stations, overpasses, and ordinary recycling areas in different countries and regions – depicted in the photographs she gathers during her travels – become undefined landscapes. Graffiti appears on the surface of the paintings, recreating the feeling of abandonment and solitude generated by the changing dynamics of the industrialized city. While calling attention to forsaken areas, Perçin probes our memory of space. Yet the graffiti in the paintings – unobtrusive marks left here and there – indicates that the space is still being used.