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Nadide Akdeniz

BIOGRAPHY / NIGDE, 1945

Received her undergraduate diploma from Dokuz Eylül University Buca School of Educational Sciences, Department of Art Training. Served as a teacher at the University as well as various other institutes, and also worked as a graphic designer. Ever since 1969, she has been organizing personal exhibitions and taking part in mixed art shows both locally as well as abroad. Akdeniz also has received prizes in her own field.

In an article by Fırat Arapoğlu drafted on the works of Nadide Akdeniz, he assesses her works as landscapes far away from mimesis, bearing excessively ironic elements. It is possible to consider the works of the artist as fictionalized landscape, because her compositions do not encompass traditional narration. By means of her plastic statement approaching pop art, she refers to a world beyond the perception of reality. From another point of view, the symbols brought together on her canvases are reminders regarding alienation, being left outside life. In the artificial world we have created, she causes the audience to encounter with deprivation of reality infiltrating our subconscious. In her compositions, she frequently causes the question “why?” to be asked and most of the time her works are the exact answer to the question so caused to be asked. Why? Because all of us are transformed into objects appearing to be alive and could possibly be looking indifferently to whatever is happening around us.