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Özgül Arslan (b. 1974) was born in Erzincan, Turkey.

Özgül Arslan completed her studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Painting Department of the Marmara University in 1998.

WORKS AND EXHIBITIONS
From 2001 on, she held solo exhibitions such as “Analogy”, “2+1”, “Erased Traces”, “How Many Steps Does Far Take?”, “Aesthetical Interference” and group exhibitions both in Turkey and abroad. While teaching drawing and theory of painting, she also worked on exhibition projects as manager and organized workshops. With the help of her pedagogic formation, she prepared courses and projects focusing on children. The artist has drawn public attention with her installation “Exposure”, a parallel event of XIV. Istanbul Biennial.

In her works, she utilizes different methods such as screen printing, collage and painting as well as ready-made objects, performances, digital photographs, videos and installations while examining the perceptual differences and impressions concerning the sociological daily life in terms of content. She analyzes and visualizes the negative aspects concerning the process regarding their adoption. These aspects can sometimes take place as a result of the intervention of technological advancements, politics, problems of modernity, ecology and social movements to daily life. These discomforts find their counterparts in the universal dimension as well as the individual dimension.

While she uses a range of materials and processes in each project her methodology is consistent. Although there may not always be material similarities between the different projects they are linked by recurring formal concerns and through the subject matter which are "Distance and Contact". The subject matter of each body of work determines the materials and the form. Each project often consists of multiple artworks, often using a variety of different media, grouped around specific themes and meanings. During research and production, new areas of interest arise and lead to the next body of work.

With her art, she tries to make visible what has been hidden or ignored.