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• Yonca Saraçoğlu

Untold Tales

Yonca Saraçoğlu, an artist who occupies a transgenerational position within the contemporary art scene, repositions her style conceptually and formally at a more advanced aesthetic threshold in her new exhibition, Untold Tales. Having worked with a broad colour palette in previous periods, the artist develops in this series a memory-oriented narrative through hazy images achieved with fewer colours.

Saraçoğlu expresses the emotions she experienced during the process through which the exhibition took shape in the following words:

“At this stage of my personal journey, influenced by having come alive and attained consciousness in a crooked, layered, and deeply buried ancient city, I find myself returning to the spaces I deeply cherish—uncanny, hypothetical, imagined, escaped-to, lived-in, mysterious, utopian, wild, spiritual, uncontrollable spaces—surreal to some, real to me. At the same time, I began to pursue what is lost in translation, what cannot be articulated, and what remains wordless and silent. I traced meanings that have lost their place and subject; the unconfessed, what has no equivalent in language, silent catastrophes, the voided, losses, what is deemed unworthy of being told, and what appears like a fairy tale to the other. As a ‘solitary wanderer,’ I wandered through labyrinths, losing myself in a misty, fog-laden, uncertain, and dreamlike atmosphere shaped by a blue-green harmony accompanied by yellow and purple, posing unintentional questions to the shadows I encountered. I found what I was not seeking, and I am still searching for what I could not find…”

Works

Ölümseyiş, 2018, Marble, 20 x 38 x 43 cm.

Yonca Saraçoğlu
Ölümseyiş, 2018
Marble, 20 x 38 x 43 cm.

Meaculpa, 2017, Marble, 55 x 80 x 92 cm.

Yonca Saraçoğlu
Meaculpa, 2017
Marble, 55 x 80 x 92 cm.

Tohum, 2017, Marble, 20 x 26 x 60 cm.

Yonca Saraçoğlu
Tohum, 2017
Marble, 20 x 26 x 60 cm.

Geceşehri, 2017, Marbleite, 20 x 25 x 33 cm.

Yonca Saraçoğlu
Geceşehri, 2017
Marbleite, 20 x 25 x 33 cm.

Nadir Bir Kuş, 2017, Marble, 35 x 35 x 50 cm.

Yonca Saraçoğlu
Nadir Bir Kuş, 2017
Marble, 35 x 35 x 50 cm.

Me, 2018, Oil on canvas, 92 x 121 cm.

Yonca Saraçoğlu
Me, 2018
Oil on canvas, 92 x 121 cm.

Rain, 2018, Oil on canvas, 111 x 84 cm.

Yonca Saraçoğlu
Rain, 2018
Oil on canvas, 111 x 84 cm.

The Tireless Queen, 2018, Oil on canvas, 115 x 88 cm.

Yonca Saraçoğlu
The Tireless Queen, 2018
Oil on canvas, 115 x 88 cm.

Undying Sense, 2019, Oil on canvas, 100 cm. (Çap/Diameter)

Yonca Saraçoğlu
Undying Sense, 2019
Oil on canvas, 100 cm. (Çap/Diameter)

The Last Night, 2022, Oil on canvas, 120 x 160 cm.

Yonca Saraçoğlu
The Last Night, 2022
Oil on canvas, 120 x 160 cm.

Wind, 2023, Oil on canvas, 140 x 105 cm.

Yonca Saraçoğlu
Wind, 2023
Oil on canvas, 140 x 105 cm.

Contemplation, 2023, Oil on canvas, 69 x 90 cm.

Yonca Saraçoğlu
Contemplation, 2023
Oil on canvas, 69 x 90 cm.

Garden of Life, 2024, Oil on canvas, 112 x 140 cm.

Yonca Saraçoğlu
Garden of Life, 2024
Oil on canvas, 112 x 140 cm.

Terra Incognita, 2025, Oil on canvas, 70 cm (Çap/Diameter).

Yonca Saraçoğlu
Terra Incognita, 2025
Oil on canvas, 70 cm (Çap/Diameter).

Love And Order, 2025, Oil on canvas, 50 x 50 cm.

Yonca Saraçoğlu
Love And Order, 2025
Oil on canvas, 50 x 50 cm.

Child, 2025, Oil on canvas, 40 cm (Çap)

Yonca Saraçoğlu
Child, 2025
Oil on canvas, 40 cm (Çap)

Je Crois Entendre Encore, 2025, Oil on canvas, 50 x 50 cm.

Yonca Saraçoğlu
Je Crois Entendre Encore, 2025
Oil on canvas, 50 x 50 cm.

Birdy, 2025, Oil on canvas, 80 x 65 cm.

Yonca Saraçoğlu
Birdy, 2025
Oil on canvas, 80 x 65 cm.

Birth, 2025, Oil on canvas, 80 x 90 cm.

Yonca Saraçoğlu
Birth, 2025
Oil on canvas, 80 x 90 cm.

Storm, 2025, Oil on canvas, 70 x 100 cm.

Yonca Saraçoğlu
Storm, 2025
Oil on canvas, 70 x 100 cm.

Centrifugal Escape, 2025, Oil on canvas, 145 x 190 cm.

Yonca Saraçoğlu
Centrifugal Escape, 2025
Oil on canvas, 145 x 190 cm.

The Golden Hour, 2025, Oil on canvas, 80 x 70 cm.

Yonca Saraçoğlu
The Golden Hour, 2025
Oil on canvas, 80 x 70 cm.

Evening, 2025, Oil on canvas, 125 x 170 cm.

Yonca Saraçoğlu
Evening, 2025
Oil on canvas, 125 x 170 cm.

Flow, 2025, Oil on canvas, 165 x 125 cm..

Yonca Saraçoğlu
Flow, 2025
Oil on canvas, 165 x 125 cm..

L’Arrivée (Arrival), 2025, Oil on canvas, 98 x 130 cm.

Yonca Saraçoğlu
L’Arrivée (Arrival), 2025
Oil on canvas, 98 x 130 cm.

Threshold, 2025, Oil on canvas, 175 x 230 cm.

Yonca Saraçoğlu
Threshold, 2025
Oil on canvas, 175 x 230 cm.

Climber, 2025, Oil on canvas, 140 x 105 cm.

Yonca Saraçoğlu
Climber, 2025
Oil on canvas, 140 x 105 cm.

Afternoon of a Dreamer, 2025, Oil on canvas, 140 x 180 cm.

Yonca Saraçoğlu
Afternoon of a Dreamer, 2025
Oil on canvas, 140 x 180 cm.

Yonca Saraçoğlu

Born in Ankara. Graduated from Saint-Benoit French High School, Istanbul. After graduating from State Academy of Fine Arts, Sculpture Department settled in Paris in 1988. Studied at Sorbonne French Language and Civilization Department. Began to study painting, made vocational made ​​trips to various European countries. Returned to Turkey in May 1991. After a happy period of intensive photographing discovered Istanbul and decided to create her own artistic universe. Works in her own studio in Cihangir, Istanbul. Saraçoğlu sees art as an inner transformer, a way of loving life and beings, and a state of resistance.