Epiphany
- 97 cm x 67 cm x 3 cm
Pınar Soytürk
İzmir
Epiphany represents a threshold where the boundaries between human and animal, mortality and immortality, begin to dissolve. The deer-woman figure points a moment of existential awakening. She embodies the instant in which the human confronts her own finitude and turns toward the ancient knowledge of nature.
The work is inspired by the surreal masquerade ball organized by the Rothschild family in 1972. Within this context, the deer emerges as a symbolic guide-an archetype associated throughout mythology and folklore with sacredness, transition, and passage to the otherworld. The fusion of the female body with the deer's head renders visible humanity's longing for power, continuity, and immortality.
The blue forms flowing from the figure's eyes resemle tears, yet they are composed of lapis lazuli. Historically linked to wisdom, truth, and celestial knowledge, lapis lazuli does not signify emotional release here, but rather the material trace of awareness itself. The stone emphasizes than transformation occurs not on a bodily level, but within consciousness.
The white deer functions as a symbol of the immortality being sought-an immortality understood not as physical permanence, but as the endurance of meaning and memory. In reaching toward this figure, the mortal subject redfines her own limits through her relationship with nature.
Epiphany suspends humanity's claim to dominance over nature and repositions the human figure through ancient symbols.The work suggests that true knowledge and awareness deepen through the acceptence of mortality.
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- Height 97 cm
- Width 67 cm
- Depth 3 cm
- Mediums Canvas
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Pınar Soytürk (1986, Balıkesir, Türkiye)
Pınar Soytürk, Anadolu Üniversitesi İngilizce Öğretmenliği bölümünden mezun olmuş ve sanata duyduğu ilgiyi profesyonel üretim sürecine taşımıştır. 2017 yılında İzmir'de Monart Resim Atölyesi'nde Güzel Sanatlar hazırlık eğitimi almış; 2019 yılından bu yana aynı atölyede resim öğretmeni olarak çalışmaktadır.
2023 yılında Ege Üniversitesi Görsel İletişim Tasarımı Bölümü'nde desen dersi vermiş ve burada ilk kişisel sergisini açmıştır. 2024 yılında Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Eğitim Bilimleri Enstitüsü'nde Resim Öğretmenliği yüksek lisans eğitimine başlamış; akademik araştırmalarını sanatsal pratiğiyle birlikte sürdürmektedir.
Soytürk'ün çalışmaları; kadın bedeni, doğa ve insan anatomisi arasındaki ilişkileri dönüşüm, sınırlar ve erotizm üzerinden ele alır. İzmir'de yaşayan ve üreten sanatçı, karma sergiler ve kolektif sanat projelerine aktif olarak katılmakta; her sergide dönüşen beden anlatılarını yeni izleyicilerle buluşturmaktadır.
Pınar Soytürk (1986, Balıkesir, Türkiye)
Pınar Soytürk graduated from Anadolu University with a degree in English Language Teaching and has carried her passion for art into her professional practice. In 2017, she attended Fine Arts preparatory courses at Monart Art Studio in İzmir and has been working there as an art teacher since 2019.
In 2023, she taught Drawing at Ege University's Department of Visual Communication Design, where she also held her first solo exhibition. In 2024, she began her master degree in Art Education at Dokuz Eylül University, continuing to integrate her academic reseach with her artistic production.
Soytürk's works explore the relationships between the female body, nature, and human anatomy through themes of eroticism, transfromation, and boundaries. Living and working in İzmir, she actively participates in group exhibitions and collaborative art projects, sharing her evolving body narratives with new audiences in each exhibition.
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