I am an artist and a scientist, and I am interested in observing and revealing their intersection points.
As a scientist, since 2010, I have been working on solar energy. I deal with the scientific development of its applications, which was raised by my preoccupation with ecological issues. But through this process, I have also developed a critical approach to (experimental) science as daily practice and to its firm connection to achievement, its highly isolated barriers and inherent rigidity in accepting, on a continuous base, any outside discussion.
I develop my own projects around personal and research-based ides and focus on the clash of natural-artificial, everyday struggles, and their links to power practices. Iuse photography, video, and printed medium.
Selen Solak (1987, Kirklareli) did a double major in engineering and combined arts in her undergraduate studies. She completed her Ph.D. in 2017 in natural sciences and now works on solar energy and printed electronic devices in Germany. She works independently as an artist and develops her own work, using photography, video and drawing. She participates in exhibitions and holds exhibitions on her own works, and she is particularly interested in printed medium. Some of the ongoing projects that she is currently working on are: plaster things, which is on the plaster copies of pillars and sculptures that can be seen as representations of power or as pieces of created stories; goodbye and welcome, which is on stopping in Bulgaria while traveling from Germany to Turkey and positioning this country as the last step out of Europe; useless scientific patterns, which will be a collection of the patterns of displaced electronic devices produced with printing ink; neither night nor day, which is a photographic study that moves around childhood and adulthood.