{"id":2065,"date":"2026-04-21T17:06:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/burakbulut.org\/?page_id=2065"},"modified":"2026-04-22T01:27:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T23:27:37","slug":"bio-statement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/burakbulut.org\/fr\/bio-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio & Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Artist<\/p>\n\n

Burak Bulut Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m<\/h1>\n

Lives and works in Berlin.<\/p>\n\n<\/header>

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Statement<\/h2>\nMy practice begins where the body stops being a subject and becomes a medium. For over two decades I have photographed the nude not to expose but to transform \u2014 working with skin as landscape, architecture, relic, and light. The body in my photographs is never only present; it is always becoming something else.\n\nEach series opens a different threshold. UnNude<\/em> reduces the figure to sculptural geometry. Chim\u00e8re<\/em> fractures identity through damaged mirrors and projected light, producing anatomies that exist only in the moment of exposure. Antemortem<\/em> lingers in the space before disappearance. Lucida<\/em> dissolves the body into ultraviolet glow. Ecotone<\/em> places the figure at the threshold between skin and soil, human and non-human. Motus<\/em> records the body in duration rather than in the frozen instant.\n\nI work primarily in-camera. The distortions in Chim\u00e8re<\/em> come from physical mirrors. The blur in Motus<\/em> comes from long exposure. The pigments in Lucida<\/em> react to light in the room, not in software. This is not a rejection of digital tools but a commitment to presence \u2014 to being in the room when the image happens, to working with light and time rather than correcting them after the fact.\n\nThe work is not pursued as provocation. It is pursued as attention \u2014 a sustained looking that treats the body as the ground of perception itself, rather than as an object to be consumed.\n\n<\/section>
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Biographie<\/h2>\nBurak Bulut Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m (b. 1982, Istanbul) is a photographer and artist whose long-form practice investigates the body as medium \u2014 through light, in-camera optical intervention, material transformation, and spatial encounter. His work unfolds across a constellation of interconnected series developed over two decades.\n\nHis photographs have been shown in solo and group exhibitions across Europe, including UnNude : L'architecture du corps<\/em> at Die Akt Galerie, Berlin (2025); Code vestimentaire : L\u00e9ger<\/em>, Die Akt Galerie, Berlin (2024); Portraits<\/em>, Fogae Gallery, Zurich (2025); Eros & Thanatos<\/em>, XVal Gallery, Barcelona (2023); Corps en mouvement<\/em>, Loosen Art Gallery, Rome (2019); Lumi\u00e8re noire<\/em> et En toute h\u00e2te<\/em> at Volksbank Gallery and Abraham-Gumbel-Saal, Heilbronn (2019).\n\nAlongside his individual practice, Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m works as curator. His curatorial project Les nus d'Istanbul<\/em> opens at Die Akt Galerie, Berlin, in July 2026, presenting fourteen photographers working in Istanbul with an accompanying ISBN publication. His earlier curatorial project LandsNude<\/em> was presented at Artcore Gallery, Thessaloniki, in 2015.\n\nHis work has been reviewed by curator Michael Hanna for Aedra Fine Arts and featured in international photography publications. Selected works are held in private collections and available as limited edition archival prints.\n\nHe is a member of the German Portrait Photography Society (BPP) and holds the International Artist Card of the IGBK (Internationale Gesellschaft der Bildenden K\u00fcnste). He lives and works between Berlin and Istanbul.\n\n<\/section>
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Contact<\/h2>\nStudio & representation enquiries: studio@burakbulut.org<\/a>\n\nPrint sales & editions: print@burakbulut.org<\/a>\n\n<\/section><\/article>
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Bio & Statement<\/h2>\n

Artistic practice, long-form research, biographical note.<\/p>\n <\/a>\n\n \n

CV<\/h2>\n

Exhibitions, curatorial projects, awards, affiliations.<\/p>\n <\/a>\n\n \n

Editions<\/h2>\n

Limited edition archival prints. Collector information.<\/p>\n <\/a>\n\n \n

Texts & Press<\/h2>\n

Critical texts, reviews, interviews, publications.<\/p>\n <\/a>\n <\/section>\n\n

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