Cartography is the foundation I use to discover, interpret and reveal the world from a new point of view. I explore global issues through my personal bicultural lens. My drawings, paintings, collages and sculptures address issues of new identities, communication routes and world interactions, as well as describe the ever-increasing combination of cultures through reconfiguring and recontextualizing different elements from around the world. I use diverse imagery appropriated from traditional symbols, patterns, foliage, insects, sea life, bodies of water, tectonic plates and the reinvention of maps to create imaginary and fragmented landscapes.

My work is a representation of both the abstract elements of my history, and the physical elements of my childhood. The work also explores global concerns, such as how the world is becoming an interdependent society where cultures are being created and traditional borders are shifting or disappearing altogether.

These works, which are in a sense map mutations, are greatly affected by where I create them. Much of the imagery is derived from my travels and the connections I make with the new surroundings. I build these pieces by overlapping outlines of maps and motifs specific to particular cultures and tribes then breaking and distorting them to create new forms. My processes of drawing, erasing, leaving marks, adding and removing paper, moving and layering images are conspicuous in the work. Moreover, I do not underestimate the power and sensuality of color and the way visual opulence can connect the viewer to the work’s emotional base. I strive to engage both the intellect and the emotional circuits–a reaction of the nervous system, perhaps, is what I am striving for in the midst of creating these imagined worlds.

Website: Artist Statement
Contact email: globalchild@gmail.com

Born in Antalya/Turkey in 1989,Fettahoglu began painting as amateur at 2005 in an art course in Antalya. From 2005 to 2006 she studied there as designer and modeler. Later, She continued her works in workshop at Middle East Technical University northen cyprus campus at where she is still undergraduate student.There, Fettahoglu centred mostly on conceptual art and realized her affinity to surrealism and postmodernism. Still mantaining her studies, she has displayed lots of her works in many exhibitons.

Website: Spanish apple
Contact email: melis.syn@hotmail.com

Gaia Cianfanelli (Albano, Rome, 1980)
attended the European School of Economics in Rome where she obtained a degree in Art and Heritage Management. Since 2005 she has been curator of the �TEVERETERNO� project now at its third year of development. She founded the START cultural association.

Caterina Iaquinta (Rome, 1978)
A Phd in Art Science and History, she attended Universit� La Sapienza in Rome. She authored the project In-Between: Visual Crossings, produced for the 2005 edition of the White Night in Rome. Since 2006 she has managed the activities of the Baruchello Foundation. Since 2005 she has been a member of the START cultural association.

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Nature is my father, my mother and me.
And on my muzzle god�s muzzle.
Silence� Because words are killing.

I was born in 1981.
I get graphic designer and later painting at Vilnius Art Academy.

Website: inspektas art
Contact email: jolita@inspektas.lt