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AYSEGÜL EPENGIN

fotoHatai | TR/GB 2010 | 6'07''

 

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The Hatai project combines the disparate forms of Turkish traditional decorative art, and digital media art. Hatai is one of the main motifs of Tezhip (illumination) and stylized form of a flower can be its vertical angle or bird's eye view. Their designs are not naturalistic and they were arranged on a field according to certain rules. Much Islamic art emphasises geometrical patterns inspired by nature, but it does not imitate it. Representational images in Islamic art do not even use traditional ideas of perspective that dominated Western art.

 

Aysegül Epengin was born in Bandirma, TR, in 1974. As a teenager she came to Istanbul. After high school, she pursued a career as an actor, but later moved behind the camera to become a director. While studying film production at the Marmara University Fine Arts department, she worked as an assistant director. Since graduating from university she has produced a documentary on the Turkush dance music scene called “Club Scene in Istanbul”. In 2004 she moved to the UK and now lives in Portsmouth where she continues writing, directing and producing short films and video art projects, while also teaching video filmmaking and editing for adult education.

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