Esra Oskay
July - August 2024
Esra Oskay is an artist, academic, and writer based in Ankara/ Turkey. After receiving her PhD at Edinburgh College of Art in 2014, she teaches art at higher education level and at the same time pursues her practice as an independent artist.
In her work, Oskay examines the asymmetries of the visibility, claims of accessibility and transparency as a promise of equity and explores alternative means of documentation that probes the limits of the visible and sayable. As such, she searches for acts of “counter visibility” (Mirzoeff, 2011) and “hidden transcripts” (Monahan, 2020) as a gesture towards the asymmetries of visible and sayable informed by the acts of power.
Most recently, Esra was part of BAK Fellowship program for Situated Practices, participated in School of Common Knowledge organised by L’internationale; exhibited in the 8th edition of Çanakkale Biennale, How do we work Together, 2022;
Most recently, Esra was part of BAK Fellowship program for Situated Practices, participated in School of Common Knowledge organised by L’internationale; exhibited in the 8th edition of Çanakkale Biennale, How do we work Together, 2022;
https://www.esraoskay.com/
had her solo show Project: Ankara, at Elgiz Museum in İstanbul, 2022; received the 2020 border_less book fund for her work studying the paintings hanging behind the closed doors of official chambers of political representation. Since 2022, she has been co-editing non-profit online journal Çapak focusing on the cultural production in the peripheries of Turkey.
[1] Mirzoeff, N. (2011).The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality. Duke University Press.
[2] Monahan, T. 2021. Visualizing the Surveillance Archive: Critical Art and the Dangers of Transparency. In Law and the Visible, edited by A. Sarat, L. Douglas and M. M. Umphrey. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press.
[1] Mirzoeff, N. (2011).The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality. Duke University Press.
[2] Monahan, T. 2021. Visualizing the Surveillance Archive: Critical Art and the Dangers of Transparency. In Law and the Visible, edited by A. Sarat, L. Douglas and M. M. Umphrey. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press.