Selen Solak (b. 1987, Kırklareli)
She is an artist with a background in painting and a researcher in natural sciences.
Her artistic practice spans various media – artistic publishing (zines, printing), photography, and video – across both personal and collaborative works, critically engaging the spaces between art and science to explore everyday relations, scientific environments and technologies. Her work is mainly image-driven, looking at the poetic connotations of the excluded and maybe the already spoken and how to return to it. She thinks around how politics affect the intimate, looking at structures in childhood and friendship.
Her scientific research is experimental, on energy devices, mainly on new generation solar cells and materials. Beyond this, she is interested in approaching her own scientific research through historical and future impacts, narratives, and the powers that shape them.
Her recent artistic works include Car Toys, Walking in a City, a zine examining the relation between toys found inside cars and the political atmosphere of a city – and the tensions between them; Missing Red, a video work that rethinks a scientific experiment in relation to the sea, through mistake, unexpected paths and movement; and Text and Image, an ongoing series thinking image and text together around birth, celebration and death.
Her work has been shown primarily in artist-run spaces, as well as at Art Laboratory Berlin and daad Gallery, among other venues. She was recently a postdoctoral researcher at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin in physics and chemistry departments.
She is an artist with a background in painting and a researcher in natural sciences.
Her artistic practice spans various media – artistic publishing (zines, printing), photography, and video – across both personal and collaborative works, critically engaging the spaces between art and science to explore everyday relations, scientific environments and technologies. Her work is mainly image-driven, looking at the poetic connotations of the excluded and maybe the already spoken and how to return to it. She thinks around how politics affect the intimate, looking at structures in childhood and friendship.
Her scientific research is experimental, on energy devices, mainly on new generation solar cells and materials. Beyond this, she is interested in approaching her own scientific research through historical and future impacts, narratives, and the powers that shape them.
Her recent artistic works include Car Toys, Walking in a City, a zine examining the relation between toys found inside cars and the political atmosphere of a city – and the tensions between them; Missing Red, a video work that rethinks a scientific experiment in relation to the sea, through mistake, unexpected paths and movement; and Text and Image, an ongoing series thinking image and text together around birth, celebration and death.
Her work has been shown primarily in artist-run spaces, as well as at Art Laboratory Berlin and daad Gallery, among other venues. She was recently a postdoctoral researcher at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin in physics and chemistry departments.
