PENUMBRA WORKSPACE PROGRAM | NYC | 2021
Rehan Miskci
Rehan’s methodology of juxtaposing personal and collective memory intrigued me. This is work that speaks of possibilities for the artist and the viewer – to be confronted and to be uncertain.
–Maria Martinez-Cañas (Artist, Member of the 2021 Jury).
Image © Rehan Miskci. Courtesy of the artist.
“[… ] As a member of the Armenian Diaspora, I have always been familiar with notions of historical conflict and displacement. My practice forms an area between two and three dimensional reinterpretation of various photographic archetypes, and I am interested in how they are re-contextualized through the juxtaposition of personal and collective memory. By creating fictional spaces for undermined and neglected moments, I aim to document the unseen and inhabit that space with alternative realities, and meanwhile looking into ways in which photography and physical space interact. [ …]”
Rehan Miskci (b. 1986, Istanbul) is a New York / Istanbul based visual artist working in photography, video and installation. She holds an undergraduate degree in Interior Architecture from Istanbul Technical University and an MFA in Photography, Video and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts, New York. She is the first place winner of Baxter Street Camera Club of New York’s Annual Competition in 2015. Her work has been exhibited in venues including Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, Fridman Gallery, New York, Kasa Gallery, Istanbul. Miskci is an alumna of Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2019) and she is the recipient of the Bronx Museum’s Artist in the Marketplace Fellowship (2019). Miskci was also awarded a NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts) Fellowship in Photography (2019).
