Hera Büyüktaşçıyan says that she started experimenting with traditional rugs in her search for the memory of space
Hera Büyüktaşçıyan is a Turkish female artist living in Istanbul. Her work focuses on concepts such as absence, invisibility, identity and memory through metaphors taken from local myths as well as historic and iconographic elements.
A detail from the artist’s studio
As an inhabitant of İstanbul, she takes us on a walking tour across İstanbul. Watch this amazing video in which Hera Büyüktaşcıyan opens the gates of her İstanbul to us.
A walk through Istanbul with artist Hera Büyüktaşcıyan – ‘What this ground remembers’ was prepared by Tate.
Hera Büyüktaşcıyan
