Bilsart is pleased to host Pınar Öğrenci’s solo exhibition on March 23rd – April 4th 2018. The exhibition is titled after Öğrenci’s 2018 video work ‘Un Peso’, which will be shown for the first time.

Öğrenci’s works are derived basically from two sources; autobiographical stories and travels. The artist’s relationship with Van, the city she was born and grew up in, and the Van Lake affects a large part of her production; images of water reoccur in her works as both a symbol for displacement and as a source of life. Defining herself as an ‘immigrant passenger’, Öğrenci establishes relationships with different ethnic groups throughout her travels and records moving images, photographs and voices; which make up the materials for her works…