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Metehan

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

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