Artisanal Iteration Series
'...Tuğçe Diri's works portray sections of historical places recollected with a ritualistic drawing practice, bringing symbols into a new fiction with various forms that have been seen, experienced and chosen in perception. Inspired by traditional handcrafts such as illuminated manuscripts, calligraphy and ornaments, the artist uses tradition and historical places as a means of identity and ethnicity. According to Diri, repetition and cycle is a hint to the visualization and recollection of the supreme totality of the infinite universe, while on the other hand it is also a request to re-confront and challenge herself over and over again.' Gizem Gedik
Artisanal Iteration Series, #1,
2020, frottage technique with crayon, acrylic pen and graphite on paper, 152 x 148 cm
Artisanal Iteration Series, #1,
2020, frottage technique with crayon, acrylic pen and graphite on paper, 152 x 148 cm, detail
Artisanal Iteration Series, Blessing,
2020, frottage technique with crayon and graphite on paper, 158x148 cm
Artisanal Iteration Series, Blessing,
2020, frottage technique with crayon and graphite on paper, 158x148 cm, detail
A Portrait of İstanbul,
2023, frottage technique with crayon, acrylic pen and graphite on paper, 140 x 110 cm
A Portrait of İstanbul,
2023, frottage technique with crayon, acrylic pen and graphite on paper, 140 x 110 cm, detail
Artisanal Iteration Series, AKM, 2021, frottage technique with crayon and graphite on paper, 160x280 cm
Artisanal Iteration Series, Hagia Sophia, 2021, spray paint, frottage technique with charcoal and graphite on paper, 97x127 cm
Artisanal Iteration Series, 'İstanbul', 2022, frottage technique with charcoal and graphite, drawing on paper, 50x50 cm
Artisanal Iteration Series, #2, 2021,
frottage technique with crayon, acrylic pen, sprey paint and graphite on paper,
120 x 85cm
Artisanal Iteration Series, #3,
2021, frottage technique with crayon, acrylic pen and graphite on paper,
120 x 85cm
Artisanal Iteration, 2021, #4,Installation view,
frottage technique with charcoal and drawing with graphite on paper, deep blue frame, 52x75 cm (each)
