Burçak Bingöl

Tate St Ives | Cornwall, United Kingdom

Through SAHA’s partnership with Tate St Ives since 2020, artist Burçak Bingöl participated in Tate St Ives Artist Residency and Commissions Programme. Selected by the museum director Anne Barlow through studio visits in Turkey, Burçak Bingöl was in residency at Porthmeor Studios for research and production with SAHA’s support. Bingöl’s solo exhibition “Minor Vibration in Earth” will be on view between 15 October 2022 - 15 January 2023 at Tate St Ives Gallery 10.

 In Minor Vibrations on Earth, Bingöl presents a new installation that resembles an imaginary kiln interior, in which objects are still in the process of being formed. Reflecting on processes of transformation and fluidity, as well as legacies of modernism in Turkey, these objects, for Bingöl, bring together 'vibrations' from different time periods and geographies. As such, the work continues her interest in the complex and often blurred boundarie between notions of identity, cultural heritage, memory and amnesia. As part of the project's development, Bingöl undertook a month-long residency at Porthmeor Studios in March 2022 and carried out research at The Leach Pottery in St Ives.

Burçak Bingöl’s (1976, Görele) works explore notions of belonging, cultural heritage, identity, decoration and failure by blurring the boundaries between these seemingly distinct notions. Through her labor- intensive process of tracing, copying and re-forming, she adopts an analytical approach to new configurations. The works are psychological landscapes that hover between abstraction and representation, rejection and preservation that both embrace and disregard Eastern and Western traditions. Working with various mediums such as ceramics, drawings, video, photography and installation, Bingöl’s works are constant re-working of materials and objects to converge to a repetitive act where fiction and failure merges. She lives and works in Istanbul.

About Tate St Ives

When Tate first opened its doors to the public in 1897 it had just one site, displaying a small collection of British artworks. Today they have four major sites and the national collection of British art from 1500 to the present day and international modern and contemporary art, which includes nearly 70,000 artworks. Situated in Cornwall, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean the museum showcases an ever-changing programme of exhibitions of modern and contemporary art.