Damla Faro
Damla Faro
Damla Faro creates a fantastic dream-world with her installations and photographs, looking askance from a comfortable distance. She focuses on details behind the misty images and takes the viewer through a tunnel of time and space, representing a forgotten and uncommon reality. In this world, there are fairies, miniatures, illustrated figures, people of various sizes, flowers, toys. The photographs which she constructs on a book page, computer screen, shoe-box or large container are brimming with clues referring to daily life. They bind the two-dimensional attributes of the fairy tales to three-dimensional reality, connecting the past and the present, the conscious and the subconscious.
Faro’s works, which can also be viewed as installations, are fairy tales of today. “Sometimes what you need is to deconstruct something ordinary into pieces and blur it in your mind. The vision becomes blurred, but when you focus on it you find yourself in a world where everything is possible,” says Faro. Within this context, she constructs her photographs and deciphers the medium’s relation to reality. Faro uses the photographic space to create characters with plays of shadow and perspective.
Damla Faro was born in Ankara in 1975. She received a communications degree in London in 1997 and went on to complete her MA in Arts Administration at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She subsequently worked at various institutions, including the Chicago Photography Center and Betty Rymer Galley. Faro’s works have been displayed in art fairs like Scope Miami and Contemporary Istanbul. She opened her first solo exhibition in 2007 at artSümer.
Damla Faro creates a fantastic dream-world with her installations and photographs, looking askance from a comfortable distance. She focuses on details behind the misty images and takes the viewer through a tunnel of time and space, representing a forgotten and uncommon reality. In this world, there are fairies, miniatures, illustrated figures, people of various sizes, flowers, toys. The photographs which she constructs on a book page, computer screen, shoe-box or large container are brimming with clues referring to daily life. They bind the two-dimensional attributes of the fairy tales to three-dimensional reality, connecting the past and the present, the conscious and the subconscious.
Faro’s works, which can also be viewed as installations, are fairy tales of today. “Sometimes what you need is to deconstruct something ordinary into pieces and blur it in your mind. The vision becomes blurred, but when you focus on it you find yourself in a world where everything is possible,” says Faro. Within this context, she constructs her photographs and deciphers the medium’s relation to reality. Faro uses the photographic space to create characters with plays of shadow and perspective.
Damla Faro was born in Ankara in 1975. She received a communications degree in London in 1997 and went on to complete her MA in Arts Administration at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She subsequently worked at various institutions, including the Chicago Photography Center and Betty Rymer Galley. Faro’s works have been displayed in art fairs like Scope Miami and Contemporary Istanbul. She opened her first solo exhibition in 2007 at artSümer.