She was born in Ankara in 1979. She completed her primary and high school education in Ankara. She graduated from Gazi University Faculty of Vocational Education between 1996 and 2000. She started to work as a teacher within the Ministry of National Education in 2001. While continuing her teaching profession, she lectured as an instructor in Sakarya MYO Textile Department of Sakarya University and assumed in the graduation projects between 2004 and 2006. She completed her master's degree with thesis at Gazi University Institute of Educational Sciences in 2008. She was involved in the program development studies of the Ministry of National Education, General Directorate of Vocational and Technical Education, Art and Design Field Decorative Arts between 2009 and 2013. However, she has written 10 module books used as educational materials in the Field of Decorative Arts. She started to work as deputy director of Cihangir Public Education Center in Beyoglu district of Istanbul in 2015. In the same year, she worked as a Project Coordinator in the project titled "İstKA YNK0041 Another Step towards Women's Participation in the Workforce in Beyoğlu", which was funded by İstKA within the Beyoglu District Governorship. During the writing phase of the same project, she prepared educational content and programs in three different areas. She participated in as an administrator in different educational institutions. She has application for utility model called Game Board (2020/02990), which teaches Braille and the Latin Alphabets together. As of October 2020, she has been the commission chairman and author of the Book of Tenth Grade Painting Applications in the Field of Plastic Arts, General Directorate of Vocational and Technical Education of the Ministry of National Education. She is married.
In the series Dar Zamanlar (Limited Times) that belongs to Adalet AĞAOĞLU which is the source of the inspiration of this exhibit, the matters like; political crisis, unjustness, social pressure and sexist manners are discussed with quotes by the book’s main character or other person’s moments. Character’s growth period and his journey that begins in a small town, than a big city, lastly in France in a Turkey that started to take steps thorugh rationalisating way.
In this four book series there are three works that inspires this exhibit. Those are “Ölmeye Yatmak” (Lie Down to Death), “Bir Düğün Gecesi” (A Wedding Night) and “Hayır” (No). In these books it is possible to feel the political crisis’ effects. With this influence, social pressure that imposed by community is negated by independent internal monologues, stream of consciousness’, clash between internal-external anachrony understanding and lastly works dialects. Limited times involve one’s stress, desperation, be estranged and feel othered to themselves or outside of them.
“Other” means person, people and everything besides “me”. Every me is other for someone other than me. By force of societies nature, “me” and “other” are unbrokenly communicated. “Other”, can occur when there are influences like; rules imposed by society, pressures, sexism, injustice, sexual orientation, migration, modern life’s burdens or identity crisis exist.
Period that person’s internal conflict and resistence that comes with it or transformation, personal experiences, their reactions being the “other” and emotional feedbacks they give are the node of the exhibition.
Artists’ work of arts can be easily affected by the acceptence that thought to be silent or being in denial of acceptence loudly and simply, patterns in their lives. Thus, Dar Zamanlar brings the impact of topics that mentioned earlier to the audience itself with three books. The purpose of the series is making sure the audience gets the feeling and idea as clear and emphatic as possible. The reasons are being “other” or othered were given to the audicence. Other artists’ works in the exhibit mainly purposes to give hope about othered concept to it’s dear guests.
“Is someone’s effort of understanding their inner world and give it to a meaning while taking this estranging path, being othered, depression or stress they take, a consequence of being slowly othered? Or a sincere reflection between freedom and correlation? Answering these questions by ourselves and start to question experiences and transformations we had, is the major purpose.
Relationship between society and individualism are mostly considered opposite but at the same time they complete and feed each other by being united. Humankind turned their will to be free, into a one-man show by making things for themselves even more altered and depressive day by day while searching for the freedom they fully aware of.
“Only shattered time pieces can be put together, stacked and every piece can be placed various distances each other. If life is about to change, it will change with the ones that can change themselves, not the ones that keep pace with it.” (Ağaoğlu, Hayır 2004)
*Exhibition will be hold in two main titles.
DAR ZAMANLAR (LIMITED TIMES)
1. Alterite: Artist who are names given down below and their works complete each other on the matters like; political problems, ethnicity, sexism, city life, estrangining migration, military coup and massacres.
Atila İLKYAZ: Asmayalım da Besleyelim mi? (Feeding Them Instead of Hanging Them)
Mustafa DUYMAZ: Zaman, Modern Hapishane-II, Yeniden-Uzak-Yakın. (Time, Modern Prison-II, Again-Far-Close)
Mehmet GÜLERYÜZ: İyi Çoban, Ahmet Taner KIŞLALI Anısına. (Good Shepherd, In the memory of Ahmet Taner KIŞLALI)
Berat IŞIK: Adalet, Kusursuz Aşıklar. (Justice, Flawless Lovers)
Evrim ÖZESKİCİ: Öteki, Kimlik Kaybı. (Other, Anomy)
2. BİRTAKIM SONUÇLAR: In this section, terms on the first episode, people’s reactions are discussed based on works. This concludes the works down below are in harmony and related.
Atilla İLKYAZ: Sorgu. (Interrogation)
Evrim ÖZESKİCİ: Ben de Görmem Duymam Konuşmam (I Too Neither Hear nor Talk)
Çetin AKMEŞE: Hattı Müdafaa (Border Defence)