Yesim Akdeniz Graf
Yesim Akdeniz Graf was born 1978 in Izmir, Turkey. Lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Akdeniz Graf’s large-sized works on paper schematize and codify concrete narratives and therefore offer an ambiguity of openness and mysteriousness. The artist’s imagery derives from the world of media as well as from specific icons such as modernist architecture. In almost surreal spaces the connections between traditional aspects and symbols of modernism become visible. "My paintings are metaphors for the stories I'm interested in. I set up a certain logic for each painting and then I break it down within that very same painting. I am interested in the moment when the system fails, when crisis disrupts continuity."
Akdeniz Graf’s large-sized works on paper schematize and codify concrete narratives and therefore offer an ambiguity of openness and mysteriousness. The artist’s imagery derives from the world of media as well as from specific icons such as modernist architecture. In almost surreal spaces the connections between traditional aspects and symbols of modernism become visible. "My paintings are metaphors for the stories I'm interested in. I set up a certain logic for each painting and then I break it down within that very same painting. I am interested in the moment when the system fails, when crisis disrupts continuity."