Remnant
Oil, Clay, Charcoal and Wire on unstretched canvas.
85cm x 55cm
2016
Sabanci has attacked this canvas with oil paints, wire, stoneware clay, and crushed charcoal from a hammer that ruptures the surface. Often opting for raw unstretched canvas, Sabanci literally leaves a trace and record of herself behind. Sabanci has scratched paint into the canvas using expressive marks that verge on abstraction, using a palette knife to expose herself and reveal an honest emotion created with conviction and personal suffering. Memories disappear in the paint through all the layers of impasto, which lets the material do the job instead of falling back on the image. Sabanci’s paintings have a visual darkness in her work, recording the process of struggle and distress. Her collections of work strive to convey a sense of trauma and are doomed attempts at fractured memories of her father, paired with muddied oil paints.
Oil, Clay, Charcoal and Wire on unstretched canvas.
85cm x 55cm
2016
Sabanci has attacked this canvas with oil paints, wire, stoneware clay, and crushed charcoal from a hammer that ruptures the surface. Often opting for raw unstretched canvas, Sabanci literally leaves a trace and record of herself behind. Sabanci has scratched paint into the canvas using expressive marks that verge on abstraction, using a palette knife to expose herself and reveal an honest emotion created with conviction and personal suffering. Memories disappear in the paint through all the layers of impasto, which lets the material do the job instead of falling back on the image. Sabanci’s paintings have a visual darkness in her work, recording the process of struggle and distress. Her collections of work strive to convey a sense of trauma and are doomed attempts at fractured memories of her father, paired with muddied oil paints.