Hera Büyüktaşçıyan (Istanbul, 1984 – )
Giuliano Gori, who has always been interested in artists who renew therange of uses of space, considered a list of names proposed by his friend Adelina von Fürstenberg, founder of Art for the World, for the creation of a new artwork. Among them, he was struck by Hera Büyüktaşçıyan for the role that environment plays in her installations. During Büyüktaşçıyan’s first visit to Celle in 2016, Gori saw the young Turkish artist focus on the olive groves and walk among the centuries-old trees, only interrupting her steps to open an umbrella and quickly make sketches in her notebook. This led to the creation of “Echo,” a work that revisits a recurring theme in her artistic production: the invisible space that determines the perception of what is in plain sight. Between presence and absence, the artwork visually echoes in the chosen site.
