Hüseyin Aksoy

Hüseyin Aksoy (b.1995, Mardin Kızıltepe) graduated from Marmara University Fine Arts Painting Department and participated in the Istanbul Biennial Study and Research Program in 2022. His artistic practice focuses on research and tracing, utilizing various mediums such as paintings, archives, videos, and photo collages to explore and understand these pathways. He reinterprets and reconstructs data that defines collective memory, examining the spaces, imes, and systems that shape historical narratives. Aksoy aims toinvestigate the representation of cultural destruction, the historical narratives based on representation, and the narrative construct&on of colonial discourse. In this context, he looks at imaginary geographies to explore intercultural relations, dispossessed lands, and the archaeology of these lands.