“Mono-Traces” Left in the Present

Derya Yücel

The ecological crisis is human-made, and the culture that rises on human-made products is constantly consuming itself, directly or indirectly. Waste, litter, flotsam and jetsam that appear as heaps in Tuğçe Diri's stack-compositions also recreate the image of natural disasters, catastrophes and destruction. Bringing an earth-centered eco-critical approach to her works, Tuğçe Diri emphasizes the traces left by human actions on our planet's ecosystem in her compositions, with the awareness that nature representation in art is directly related to social and political perceptions.