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When light passes from one medium to another medium of a different density it bends. Refraction is the bending of light as it passes from one transparent medium into another. This bending by refraction allows us to make use of lenses, magnifying glasses prisms, etc. It also makes it possible for us to see because our eyes use lenses to focus images onto our retina. By using light microscopy, I aim to get refractions with the aid of different mediums.

“Path of Light” series can be interpreted as a performance that invites the viewer to play with the physical manner of color and form, and capture the visuals that dissolve the boundaries between art and light. I position light in the center of my contemporary art productions. I use light as a form that helps the audience in self-understanding. Crystals, planktons, unknown appearances of human cells, visuals of biological activity, all show hybrid formations that both reflect and reproduce, form and light. Attractive surfaces exist between the transparency and vibrance of color with an unknown appearance. These pieces focus on the interaction of materials, association between form and color, light and shadow, location and time, all kinds of phenomenological aspects and semantic consequences. In the nature of my works, light and color emerge as an attitude that helps overcome the line which limits the physical and sensory experience of the audience.

Spheres are reminiscent of cells, the minuscule building blocks that form the human body. Cells are the smallest components that represent life in our bodies.

The idea behind of the exhibition came about during my interactions with the Histopathology Laboratory of IRB Barcelona (Institute of Research in Biomedicine). The scientists were observing samples taken from healthy and unhealthy tissues (such as liver, eye, skin or lung) under the microscope. Visual differences between healthy and unhealthy tissues allow researchers to understand disease. This can be likened at my artwork, which relies on visual representations. The exhibition focuses mainly on the visually distinctive forms of these tissues. I adapted my observations in order to produce large-scale stained glass paintings. The work makes the “invisible” parts of the human body (the cells) “visible” and invite the audience to experience human cell structures on a large scale with the use of daylight.

The exhibition was held in the Operation Room of Recinte Modernista Sant Pau which boasts huge panes of glass that once allowed daylight to flood in while surgery was undertaken. Sant Pau is hospital complex that is today partly an Art Nouveau Site. The paintings were placed against the windows of the Operation Room. The site-specific installation is the contemporary interpretation of “stained glass (vitrail)” art that goes well with the Catalan Modernist spirit of the Pavillion. The spirit of being luminous, bright, absolutely full of light. The installation relies on daylight, as did the Operation Room back in the old days. The colors of the paintings will change depending on the intensity of the daylight outside.

This project is the result of the Suter`s collaboration with IRB Barcelona as an Artist in Resident that Süter carried out during 2018, and she was selected to be the only official Artist in Residence at IRB Barcelona. Quo Artis Foundation is one of the members of the jury for this residency program, and the curator of Ayşe Gül Süter`s solo show “Microspheres”. The project was also supported by Turkish Cultural Foundation and Barcelona Turkish Consulate General.

Photos © Pere Virgill

Spheres are reminiscent of cells, the minuscule building blocks that form the human body. Cells are the smallest components that represent life in our bodies.

The idea behind of the exhibition came about during my interactions with the Histopathology Laboratory of IRB Barcelona (Institute of Research in Biomedicine). The scientists were observing samples taken from healthy and unhealthy tissues (such as liver, eye, skin or lung) under the microscope. Visual differences between healthy and unhealthy tissues allow researchers to understand disease. This can be likened at my artwork, which relies on visual representations. The exhibition focuses mainly on the visually distinctive forms of these tissues. I adapted my observations in order to produce large-scale stained glass paintings. The work makes the “invisible” parts of the human body (the cells) “visible” and invite the audience to experience human cell structures on a large scale with the use of daylight.

I`ve been invited to science labs as an artist in residence in the past years. There I witness the scientists prove their experiments through crystallisations techniques. When you think of crystals, you often think of shiny flashy rocks or gems. However, crystal forms are incredibly diverse; they can even be found in our bodies. Whether we are looking at ice crystals, glaciers, oceanside crystals, teardrops, sweat, or the salt in our kitchens, they are perfectly shaped nature-made sparkles. I started to grew them for my own pleasure, then I`ve started to integrate them into my art.

During our curfew times in the beginning of 2020, I grew another batch of crystals. I was always at home, so I had to chance to give them their desired lightness, darkness, heat and serenity. Then I photographed them under microscope and/or macro lens camera. The colors are the feelings of crystals. Because when they refract sunlight they disperse rainbow colors. To get that colors, I adjust the lighting of my microscope.

Inside crystals you will find very unique structures. I am interested in the formation of different crystal structures. Crystal lattice shapes. When you think of a lattice, think of a cage. Although there are thousands of different crystals, the shapes of the crystals can be described using just six basic geometric forms. It doesn’t matter if it’s an ice crystal, glacier, oceanside crystals, teardrops, sweat or salt in our kitchen. My fascination lies in the interrelation between the micro and macro worlds, in particular where crystal structures overlap and unify until they finally come together as one.

I approach ice almost like a human body. It’s formed by small molecules. It holds memories. Its form changes like the human body. The project interprets the color, light, and structure of ice. Through their magical landscapes, I aim to illustrate the blue-green hues and extraordinary shapes of another world.

Photos and videos captured by compound microscope using ice, paints and mixed media. Melting of ice is a very slow process so it’s hard to witness the change of the form, unless you observe in close-up. Under a microscope you are able to observe the water droplets move faster or slower due to the hydrological cycle of water.

The initial idea behind this series took the form of questions such as “How can interactivity could be designed without using any software, optical detectors, or touch-operated apparatuses?”Interactivity is not merely an optical game, but an experience that enables visitors to grasp the relationship they have with world and objects in it through their own body. Our own distorted body image appearing on the mirrors shows us the significance of both our inner experience of perceiving the world and objects in it and also the importance of our location in space.

Crying is an exocrine process, that is, a process in which a substance comes out of the body. Other exocrine processes, like exhaling, urinating, defecating and sweating, release toxic substances from the body. There’s every reason to think crying and sweating release chemicals that the body produces in response to stress. Most of the time we feel better after crying or sweating.

In most eastern cultures, men are taught not to express their emotions. Collecting the teardrops of men, dehydrating tears on petri dishes and photographing them under microscope led me to create these artworks. That proved to men that they can create those beautiful artworks by simply crying, expressing their emotions.

After sweating, thanks to the vaporous fluid, we can witness crystals in our bodies. These crystals are produced in response to our body after our emotional or physical activity. They are instinctive behaviours. We sometimes suppress this innate behaviour for many reasons.

Would that be possible to reduce the rate of stress-related illnesses by means of this relief; crying?