Faculty of Art

Drawing and Painting

Ayse Ipekdokuyan

Arkadaşlar İyidir (Friends are good)

Arkadaşlar İyidir confronts the paradox of presence without connection. Through negative space, the work renders the feeling of being cut out of life even while surrounded by others — a hollowness that social proximity cannot fill. The image transfer medium lends the piece a quality of distance, as if the scene is already a memory or a surface that cannot be fully inhabited. The title’s warmth is undercut by the visual silence around it.