1. "When the night Returns"
2. "Hasan, the crazy "
3. "What is hidden beneath?"
4. "Fantasies, Secrets and Despairs"
5. "Sin"
6. "Love"
By Belgin Yucelen
I am from Turkey. I carry my roots with me everywhere I go, from how I relate to others to how I dance. I lived in this country as many years as I lived in Turkey. First, I protested the differences of both places, I then I let myself fall into the lightness of being borderless. The need for belonging is now replaced with a desire to be placeless. Wine-colored seas, rain washed cobblestones, dim staircases, fig trees warmed in the sun form the stages of my imagination, and are closer to my own roots. I trust them but at the same time my memory seeks nameless high meadows and darkest seas of far destinations, where live heroes of my imagination. I get attached to anyone with imagination, passion or wisdom from all lands; be it Italian, Israeli, Mexican, Cuban, Swedish, or Columbian. I am allured by ways of living that evolve as they mature such as the Japanese concepts. I am attracted to many philosophies that provoke thinking. So, I now dance only to music my heart desires. Borders of my personality is also blurry, giving a gentle kindness to where I can be and who I can be. The edge that separates sanity from insanity, or introvert from extravert is more exciting than assuming life-long labels. Even though there is a risk of falling off to the river of madness on the suspended bridge between reality and imagination, I take the risk. Social categorizations such as race, class, and gender also can be brutal in defining social status as they put barriers to how far each person can reach to the moon even though it is the same distance to us all. I seek edges that defy these categorizations by blurring binaries like male and female, young and old, poor and wealthy. There is no line between subconscious, dreams and imagination, they all end up in a form of truth glorified by beautiful minds and there is no line between any of us we seek the same thing, some form of meaning.
Artist's Bio:
While enhancing our imaginations and consciousness, Belgin Yücelen’s art remains true to the desire to create meaning and beauty in subtle simplicity. With her installations, sculptures, films and prints, she asks the questions of Who we are? and Where we are going? So together we can achieve basic human wisdom. Rather than a direct representation, she creates a fictional world beyond the existing to conjure unrealized possibilities to challenge imaginations. Traces of her previous years in Turkey appear in her artwork placing it at the fascinating edge where East and West meet and ancient and modern coincide. She has been recognized by organizations such as the Colorado Creative Industries, Boulder Country Arts Alliance, Moon and Stars Project Grant, Clark Hulings Fund, Hemera Foundation, and National Sculpture Society. She founded in 2019 as a creative space for community use and studios for artists in Boulder, CO. She is currently serving as a board member at the Dairy Arts Center and as a grant panelist at the Boulder Arts Commission.
