F. Tülin, 1950

F. Tülin put self-expression through painting at the center of her life from a very young age and continued her art education abroad in London, Berlin, Paris, and beyond. She has her own unique style, free of external influences. The paintings’ primary subjects are organic objects and the human body; she focuses her concerns regarding form on the undulating line between the tangible and the abstract.

Tülin makes organic forms such as the human body, a peach pit, a ginger root, or fruits and vegetables larger than life—indeed, giving them gigantic proportions. Moreover, as a pictorial method, she situates them within a void in which they can get lost. For her, this void is a timeless and spaceless region she assumes to be on the surface of the canvas, and she doesn’t hesitate to uncover it. From the beginning, the artist has tried to tear down reality by trading what is relatively concrete with what is abstract, thereby resisting conventional ways of seeing and perceiving. In her figural and still-life work, the artist confounds the perception of beauty to which we have become accustomed by presenting from a different perspective forms we thought we knew.