Sila
Candansayar
Born in 1997 in Ankara, Turkey
Lives and works in Paris, France
At the intersection of mythology, science-fiction, and social critique, Sila Candansayar spatializes objects with corporeal dimensions. These sensual presences converse with geometric forms and constraining frameworks.
Everything begins with a gesture, an instinctive movement, a line seeking its path. In Sila Candansayar’s practice, form is never given: it comes into being. It emerges from an impulse, from a physical engagement that turns the body not only a starting point, but also an anchoring site. Her works do not belong to a system of representation, but rather to a process of incorporation. The artist’s body inhabits, activates, and wanders through her works, which manifest in a practice where making is synonymous to experiencing.
Each work bears the trace of this bodily engagement. The gesture plays a decisive role, not as a mere vehicle of expression, but as an operator.
It produces, reveals, and transforms. From this involvement emerges a repertoire of forms: spheres, knots, protrusions, sinuous lines. Fragments of the body appear: a head, a belly, a heart, a limb. The body is never presented frontally, yet it is everywhere.
— Marilou Thirache
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