EMEL KARAKOZAK
FLOWER OF LIFE
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In accordance with the visual quality of the universe, when its geometric structure, form, rhythm, color and massic kinesis are reduced to body, it reorganizes the senses and attributes meaning to any phenomena. The indefinite combination of the information received is the misconception of the colors, the physical dimensions, the continuity of the rhythm.
Phenomena form a new vibration by increasing the surface tension and standing across reality, thereby creating different circumstances in the moment. Time and space are non-existent in their own orbit. Phenomena expose the opposition between the moment and its value, and the opposition between becoming one and becoming a unit. Phenomena were turned into a part of the whole with the facts of perception, light and motion.
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The “FLOWER OF LİFE” by Emel Karakozak makes a reference to reality and is a recreation of reality with the existence of illusion.
Gold List Award Artist Emel Karakozak © Art Market Magazine
Emel Karakozak was born in Mut (the Mediterranean region of Turkey) in 1974.
Her adventure of photography began in her high school years. She had participated in several group exhibitions, received awards in various national and international competitions and was a jury member of plenty of photography competitions.
Living in Adana, she is the first woman in Turkey who has an EFIAP/g title and who had held a personal exhibition, which was called ‘Lotus’; it had taken place in 2010, at Adana Sabancı Fine Art Gallery. She won the first prize of the 2011 Hürriyet newspaper exhibition ‘Domestic Violence’. She has opened her second personal exhibition in Istanbul via Artgalerim.
She had also worked in numerous art fairs: the 2012 Art Bosphorus Contemporary Art Fair, 2011 Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair and the 2011 Art Bosphorus Contemporary Art Fair. Her works were exhibited in Hacettepe Art Museum, BAKSI Art Museum, Romantic Bad Rehburg Museum, Steyerberger Rathaus in Vittebsk/Belarus Center for Contemporary Art, Cultural Center of the Zdziwiona and in the Museum of Kreises.
She had worked at Artgalerim Nişantası Art Gallery as a photography artist for three years and continues her career as a photographer at Artgalerim Bebek Art Gallery and Lust Auf Kunst Art Gallery.
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‘Visuallity is my predominant side… I’ve been using the term ‘photography language’ quite often and I love it. Photography may not contain usage ofletters, brushes and hammer blows, but it has a scene and fiction in of its own. Neither nature nor people have the integrity and continuity formed by a continuous chain like photography. Every aspect of it is aimed to understand the whole. Life and death, which are main themes in my bipolar photography, serve as an example of my hybrid expression.’
-Emel Karakozak
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EMEL KARAKOZAK | BUDDING
Emel Karakozak takes us to a new journey on the female body with her series “One For All” (Bir / im / iz)
Her photography indicates how we scream out by silence, how we veiled ourselves by disrobing and how we become sole by reproducing. She leaves her borrowed bodies credently into the eternity of white. Karakozak presents us with hybrid expressions of a post-minimalist utterance keeping up with partly-traditional forms. She is producing in a path leading to recreation of body for photography from the light falling on a female body. She skillfully knits lacework with light presented by nude body motifs.
Emel Karakozak is considered innovative in the traditional nude photography niches. She heralds the birth of a hybrid race by melting the sex in photography, despite using female bodies as core models. Body is replaced with the surface of a photograph using shading and texture.
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Emel Karakozak reminds us through her photography once again that everything is an embryo before presence, and that we all are growing up by reproducing and becoming lonely in the same way. In our world, where everything resembles one another, she is mothering idle souls: suckling them and throwing them to her own space. She is telling the stories of the breakings, reflections, splits and unifications. And these stories are processed as genetic codes to our cells.
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