Miss-understood is a duo show by Afifa Bari and Özge Aytekin in association with the Akin Collision Studio Residency Program.
We would love you to check out the show at the virtual gallery from here:
https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/.../429.../miss-understood
About Miss-Understood:
Working on capitalism's themes in the modern era, Miss-understood critiques how the patriarchal system shapes our behaviors. When consumerism in our behavior continues to rise as it plays a large role in our livelihood. In a society powered by unequal power dynamics, the capitalist system powers itself through the eyes of the male gaze. It is a time to awaken our identities and question and reevaluate and reinvent our identities. It is impossible to ignore the shadows cast on us by the systemic and traditions imposed on us by the patriarchal society. Afifa Bari and Özge Aytekin look at different aspects of those themes. While Afifa Bari explores consumerism's embedded habits in one’s daily lifestyle and its challenges, Özge Aytekin questions how the system can cause alterations in female identities to fit in the system.
About the Artists:
Afifa Bari
Born in 1997, Afifa Bari is a surrealist painter and textile artist based in Toronto. She earned her BFA from York University in 2020. Through representational art, she examines the contemporary world through the lens of capitalism, uncovering consumerist-values in her work. She discusses issues around ideas of capitalism, such as poverty and the cycle of consumerism. Her work focuses on material possessions and the desire for materialism in the newly advancing society. She discusses fast fashion trends and the constant desire to purchase more in modern society.
Email: afifabaristudio@gmail.com
Website: https://afifabari22.wixsite.com/afifabari
IG: @_fiffs
Özge Aytekin
Özge, experiments with paintings, sculptures, and installations to create postmodern narratives of women within the surreal realm. She discusses existential crises of female identities, explores their response to their existence, in all its variety, to the absurd and the unexpected. Her characters linger in the structures of the patriarchal systems and their subconscious desires. Özge, while recognizing the deep roots of the authority in her character’s senses, allows them to reenact the story that may break the authorities' confinements.
She studied at Yildiz Technical University, Art and Design, Combined Arts Program in Istanbul, Turkey where she was born and raised. She continued her education in Toronto, completed a postgraduate Event Marketing program at GBC. She participated in various group exhibitions in Istanbul, Linz, and Toronto. Currently, she works and lives in Toronto.
Email: infoart.ozge@gmail.com
Website: https://ozgeaytekin.carbonmade.com/
IG: @ozgeartto