Turkish visible artist Deniz Sağdıç makes beautiful portraits out of textile waste, discarded zippers, buttons, purchasing tags, discarded laptop components and plastic luggage.
This 12 months, Türkiye is getting ready to mark its first International Day of Zero Waste, impressed by the mission that was launched below the auspices of first girl Emine Erdoğan in 2017, to focus on the significance of eliminating waste in preventing the local weather disaster in Türkiye. The United Nations General Assembly adopted a decision throughout its 77th session on Dec. 30, 2022, to proclaim March 30 as International Day of Zero Waste, to be noticed yearly. Türkiye, with 105 different nations, put ahead the decision.
Hence, marking today, Daily Sabah determined to have a good time Sağdıç, who’s well-known for utilizing waste supplies in her artwork, reorganizing them in a sure order and forming unimaginable artwork.
Answering the query concerning her motivation behind this artwork, Sağdıç mentioned: “My father was a glass master, while my uncle was a designer in a glass manufacturing company and my aunts were tailors. I practiced making stained glass in my father’s glasshouse when I was only 10-11 years. Later, I started making bags from cuttings of fabric at my aunts’ workshop and earned my pocket money by selling them to those around me. A few years later, I became my father’s right hand for installing stained glass on buildings. I decided to lead my life with a job that requires creativity. I graduated from the faculty of the fine arts department.”
Ready-ReMade
“I named my project ‘Ready-ReMade’ as I use waste materials from daily use objects,” she underlined. She began this mission in response to conceptual artwork, an artwork for which the thought (or idea) behind the work is extra necessary than the completed artwork itself.
“Conceptual artwork could be accepted as a way, however it’s inappropriate to assume that the idea in artwork is simply potential with the conceptual artwork approach. I used to be revising this method through the use of waste supplies with classical strategies of artwork resembling portray objects with oil paint, exhibiting them as sculptures or reorganizing them in a sure order. By doing so, I suppose the intention is to precise that the idea in artwork is just not unique to this concept of what we all know as conceptual artwork however fairly, the idea in artwork existed lengthy earlier than we labeled it, that with out idea, artwork can’t exist in any respect,” Sağdıç added.
Denim craft
“I was 13 when I was obsessed with a pair of jeans that were a bit too expensive for my budget. I remember collecting my neighbor’s old jeans and making bags out of them so I could sell them and buy the jeans that I was dreaming of. Eventually, I bought them. I was so in love with my new jeans that I wore them until they were completely torn apart. At the time, ripped jeans weren’t a thing yet in Türkiye but I remember trying to style them by adding some damage to them so that I could wear them longer,” she shared.
“Where and when denim was first invented is still under debate. However, I believe denim is not only a tool or a material for me it is a form of communication and the reason is the value of denim. If you are not a textile professional, you may not know the fabric; but anyone who sees denim recognizes it, at least once in her/his lifetime, she/he has touched it. Denim does not only belong to a certain culture or a country it is a global fabric and I use it as language,” she defined.
“I am an artist who takes sustainability as an important matter. I want people to stop for a while and think about consumption via my artwork. On the other hand, I aim to inspire people about what they can do about sustainability. Through my artwork, I try to spread a message of awareness: Look if I can make art with garbage, you can do the same,” she added.
Shedding mild upon the way forward for this explicit artwork, she mentioned: “My art is being covered as a subject in many schools in Europe that certainly makes me glad to see a positive future being passed onto the next generation. My art has been included in thesis topics at universities in different parts of the world. I frequently receive messages from different age groups and different university departments.”
Istanbul Airport additionally collaborated with the artist for an eco-friendly exhibition known as “‘0’ Zero Point.” Sağdıç sourced the supplies from the airport’s waste administration middle, thus drawing consideration to the very fact of how a lot waste an airport, particularly an enormous one like Istanbul Airport, produces on daily basis. With an enormous workers, with a capability of serving 90 million passengers a 12 months, it’s the busiest airport in Europe and the Fifth-busiest on the planet.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
