Polen Cerci

BIO

Polen is an architect by training, worked in design industry and with developers for a long time in her professional carrier. Her architecture projects when she was a student were more expressive and conceptual than just rationally followed lines. Form used to follow function. Big sheets were regulated canvases bringing different aspects of human requirements. She studied MBA and MIS following her Architectural degree in Cyprus. She then moved back to Bodrum and Istanbul and left Istanbul for good for Miami. She had successful exhibitions at Art Basel in Miami. She worked with different artists and curators and currently working on 3D canvas paintings, sculptures and contemporary abstract acrylic paintings.

ARTIST STATEMENT

‘Form follows function’, I followed and believed in this in my architecture practices, in the past. Now I am free of function and form that makes sense. Nothing needs to make sense. It is in the eye of the beholder. I experience becoming limitless by one painting at a time, by unlearning, by forgetting, by leaving the past and future behind in that moment. What excites me is the bystanders, before they read the name tag, before they read anything about art or my art pieces, I am curious about their facial expressions, where their eyes follow on the painting, what do they think and of all the words and thoughts that crossed their mind which words go thru the preconceived filters and which words do they choose to say, can they break even the smallest of the barriers of a lower case rationalism. It is like a discovery; it is like an expensive Rorschach test without the test and without any expectations for results. Their interpretation becomes a part of my art. Maybe not all, but some, some express it in ways that I cannot even imagine. Simple, a few words or sentences but in that moment, I feel we are connecting thru my art, thru their soul and need for expression.

ARTIST LINKS

Website: polencerci.com

Instagram: @polen_cerci_art