Törer
I was born in 1990 in Ankara, Turkey. I graduated from Hacettepe University Faculty of Fine Arts, Ceramics Department between 2014-2018. During this period, I was in Tallinn with the Erasmus exchange program at the Estonian Academy of Arts, Ceramics Department (2016-2017). Between 2018-2021, I gave my master’s degree with a thesis at Hacettepe University Fine Arts Institute Ceramics Department. I wrote my thesis on “The Search of Fluidity in The Discussion of Sexuality And Identity In Art” and studied this subject.
The form and content of my work is creating sculptures by using ceramic as the main material, and integrating drawings, ready materials and found-objects into my installations. In these works, I focus on the metamorphosis of figurative and daily objects; genderless defined characters that behave in flippant, depressive, ironic, twisted and incoherent ways and autobiographic elements derived from my personal experiences. All these carry the witnessed world into a new universe to discuss the artistic processes through it. In this new universe even colorful, lively, seductive or cheerful looking objects are conceptually constructed through in-explicitly told short stories that are painful, suicidal, obsessive and fetishist. Such semi-defectivenesses are included through mechanical solutions.
Objects in my works generally repeat themselves in time-independent and never-ending cycles and they seem to resists these cycles just like souls and bodies trapped in the infinitive and painful loops of the underworld. They narrate their own experiences and while being trapped in this hell-like third world, the objects find their own characters. As in personal life, I am not able to include my own body as a shy person, my works enable me to do it.
Education
2018 - 2021 (MA)
Hacettepe University, Institute of Fine Arts, Ceramics Department with Thesis.
Thesis: The Search of Fluidity in The Discussion of Sexuality And Identity In Art
CGPA: 3,81 High Honour Student
2016 - 2017
Estonian Academy of Art, Ceramic Department (Erasmus+)
2014 - 2018 (BA)
Hacettepe University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Ceramics Department,
CGPA: 3,56 High Honour Student
Exhibiton
Solo
02.04.2022 - 15.05.2022
Teratoma
Evliyagil Dolapdere, İstanbul- Turkey
08.02 - 10.03.2020
Transobject / Transobje, Siyah Beyaz Gallery, Ankara- Turkey
Group
16.03 - 27.04.2024
POV, Gallery Kairos, İstanbul, Turkey
26.10.2023
28.04.2024
Souvenirs of the Future, Pera Museum, İstanbul, Turkey
29.07- 3.09.2023
Karma Coma, Anna Laudel Bodrum, Bodrum, Turkey
25.11 - 27.11.2022
Powerplay, Plesure and Gain, Gessneralle, Zurich- Switzerland
(Winner of the Porny Days Carté Blanche prize)
14.09 - 16.10.2022
Re Image Morning After Dark, Gallery Kairos, İstanbul- Turkey
01.08 - 02.10.2022
Çark, Karşı Sanat Çalışmaları, İstanbul- Turkey/ Throught the Window
10.05 - 14.06.2022
Dévoyé, Match Art Project, İstanbul- Turkey
21.09 - 31.10.2021
Earth Part / Yer Parça, Ka Atolye, Ankara- Turkey
11.06 - 22.11.2020
Crystal Chateau / Camdan Şato, Museum Evliyagil, Ankara-Turkey
21.12.2019
Venus in Fur / Kürklü Venüs, Martch Art Project, İstanbul- Turkey
14.06 - 9.07.2019
To Vomit / Kusmak, Siyah Beyaz Gallery, Ankara-Turkey
Performance & Residency
Performance Name
Public Toilet, Gessneralle, Zurich- Switzerland / 25.11.2022
Curator
Marcel Hörler
Desciription
45 minute long performance by Lucio Davoli (dom), Metehan Törer (sub) and Sicc Puppy (facilitator). The performance deals with different aspects such as punishment/reward, pain/pleasure, honor/humiliation, impact play and includes sound and body fluids.
Artist Talk
14.05.2022
Teratoma, Artist Talk with Burçak Bingöl
24.12.2021
Reading to Artist, Robert Mapplethorpe/ Love, Ego, God,
Ka Atolye, Ankara- Turkey
Speaker: Metehan Torer,
Moderator: Can Akgümüş
Contact Me
metehantorer(@)gmail.com