Elif Saltık presents her story to the audience as if it were a theater play!

Ceramic artist Elif Saltık, who conveys the images of her dreams, which have made a name for herself in recent years, into her art and the materials she uses with a fairy-tale language, is at Galeri Diani with her solo exhibition titled ‘Haki’ from February 4, 2023!

Ceramic Artist Elif Saltık’s personal exhibition titled ‘Haki’ will take place between 04 February – 22 February 2023 at Gallery Diani. “When you look at a cup, a bowl, a board or a statue, it should make you smile, maybe make you think,” says Elif Saltık. That is why he states that the works he produces are what he tells the audience and that he wants them to be heard. He adds real pieces from nature as accompaniments to his works. In this way, he underlines that his stories are further articulated and made understandable.

Elif Saltık said, “It’s as if I wrote a play that was watched on a theater stage and I wanted the audience to wait for the next scene with curiosity. Yes, I was excited first, and a lot. ‘My journey with ceramics begins to take shape the moment I pick up the mud. Mud has limits and I love pushing these limits so much that I suddenly find myself in a story. I am very excited to work with different textures and to tell little stories with these textures. My main point of departure is Nature. According to me, my works consist of forms, colors and textures that we cannot look at and see, and when I combine what I can partially capture with human stories, it’s like I’m carving a fantastic world on the mud. Especially wood and soil trigger my creativity in terms of texture, form and structure. By combining the nature theme with human figures, I integrate all my emotions with terracotta and present it to the audience.’

We are waiting for you to dream while watching the works of artist Elif Saltık, in which she presents her experiences and feelings to the audience with a fairy-tale-like narrative, as if they were on a theater stage.

Who is Elif Saltik?

He was born in 1971 in Istanbul. After completing his primary, secondary and high school education, he graduated from Mimar Sinan University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Stage Image Arts, Theater Decor and Costume main art branch in 1993. After graduating, he made decorations for various theater and television channels. He stepped into the art of ceramics in order to be able to convey the self-confidence and creativity that his education and personal skills have brought to others. Thanks to the training he received at M:G:S.Ü, he started to keep the stories he created while making decorations alive on the mud. Since 2010, ceramics has become an indispensable part of her life. The artist, who gave trainings on hand shaping in his own workshop and in different workshops, organized workshops in certain periods. Apart from ceramic and sculpture works, he made design works in different organizations and participated in various group exhibitions and fairs.

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