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Felts - The New Materialism: On Günnur Özsoy's Felt SculpturesA Reflected Assertion - A Conversation between Günnur Özsoy and Melis GolarFrom Habitus to Momentum, and from Object to StructureLight is Whole, My World is in PiecesCosta Mea at Esma SultanCosta MeaOn Costa MeaNotes For GünnurStories from below and above the horizonSpeed, freshness and vitality - A Conversation between Günnur Özsoy and Marcus Graf Dichotomy of Coincidence and PlanPebblesGünnur Özsoy's SculpturesAll Day / Everyday 2Art has one purpose; and that is to discipline the soul. Paul Valéry
Costa Mea
Zeynep Hekim, 2015
In her most recent works, Günnur Özsoy confronts us with a different method from her past  techniques. In her previous works, she didn’t create emptiness, but instead responded to the emptiness with mass. In this series, however, the concept of the emptiness manifests itself as a way of destroying, fragmenting or decreasing the totality, without losing its’ way. This results in leaving behind the smooth, flat surfaces that we have been familiar with in her previous works, in order to work with thin and intricate surfaces instead. Color, light and self-identical unique organic forms take the main stage. We may distinguish diverse periods of the artist, recognizable through the materials and the colors she uses as well as her relationship with them, mainly by examining these two aspects; the bronze used during the first period of works, the use of bronze during the first period of her artistic practice and then the use of aluminium casts, polyester and wool in her later works, including the brass used after the successive loss of her loved ones and the lead that she especially relates to her emotional attachment to her mother. In this exhibition, it seems that we shall witness the excellent synthesis of organic and synthetic. The exhibition is named after the artists' work entitled Costa Mea, which means "my rib".  Since the work is so profoundly intense, its affective impact is, to that degree, strong and spiritual.  It feels as if the meaning is hidden somewhere in the form.  The rib bone is vital to us, just like the organic forms of the artist; it is divine. This fact is so pertinent that, if cloning humans becomes one day legal, the stem cell from the rib will be used to implement the procedure. In short, it is life. As an archaic myth, the story of Adam and Eve appears to support this view.  Adam was created from soil.  And wasn't Eve created from his rib bone? Thus it is written in the Torah.  Have you ever wondered why the rib was chosen specifically? Ti, means both rib and life in Sumerian.  Also, have you noticed the significance of the letter "T" in "T-bone steak"? In the Heaven myth of the Sumerians, it is told that the goddess Nin-Ti is the giver of life.  Nin-Ti means "the women that gives life".  Similarly, Eve means "lady who makes alive". With this symbolic narrative, the story takes on a different connotation.  The rib that allows us to breathe; this life-giving, fragmenting and gathering woman almost seems to be touching us in Günnur Özsoy's "Costa mea".  In this series, apart from this work, purple and green-coloured and moving sculptures along with sculptures changing colors according to the point of view. These are used by the artist for the first time, and some of the sculptures are called "orbital", "shell", "repressed", "transcendence", mistletoe".