The Act is Beauty

Space, memory and senses. The physical environment leaves traces on our senses and memory. Photography artist Dilek Öztürk presents her first solo exhibition “The Act is Beauty” where she focuses on the traces based on senses and memory of the spatial experience. “The act is beauty” focuses on the traces based on senses and the memory of the spatial experience. The photographer keeps on searching for an aesthetic that arouse a feeling of sameness in different cities of the world, both in a coincidental and fictional way. Dilek Öztürk personalizes her own spatial experience and puts herself within the urban texture. This continuos behavior within the serie is based on the drive of breaking or building an order in the space. The color, scale and the similarity concept in the space follows each other in different references in different cities. The coincidental and fictional flow of the project turns into a guerilla movement with entering public and private spaces without authorization, setting up a tripod and shooting herself with self timer. This situation also inspires the name of the project: The act is beauty.