BEHİYE ARAT

She successfully completed her Master's degree in the Painting Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Hacettepe University in 2022. The artist establishes a conceptual framework for her work by connecting with Magical Realism, combining the perception of reality in this world with imagination, and focusing on the magical existence underlying life emerging from concrete. Bringing together the 'concrete' that is real and the 'nature' that is magical, the artist blends reality and fantasy to create her own magical landscapes. While creating these landscapes, she makes visible the struggle of nature squeezed between the destroyed and rubble piles. Saying, 'While concrete dominates nature in the real world, nature itself is dominant in my landscapes,' the artist usually continues her productions using different techniques such as photography, assemblage, painting, site-specific installation, collage, primarily in Eskişehir.