Ayse Ates
Title: Butterfly
Duration: 1:04min (Loop)
Material: Video Installation, Single Channel // Drawings on transparent papers, 3 Pieces, 21x29.7 cm each
Year: 2018 //2022

About:
I visited graveyards during my first master thesis process. At that day, butterfly followed me during my visit all the time. I could think of recording this image finally and it flew away after a while and disappeared. This is a very spontaneous work which I did not work on it but what interests me most are short images, the exisence of a butterfly following me and the graveyard as a space.

Bio:
Ayse Ates b. 1995, Istanbul// lives and works in Hamburg.
2021- .., Time-Based Media MFA with Prof. Jeanne Faust at Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg. 2017-2020, Painting MFA with Prof. Murteza Fidan at Marmara University Institute of Fine Arts. 2013-2017, Painting BA with Prof. Zafer Mintas at Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts. She produced her early works with the belief that nothing ever happened on earth and in the universe at any given time will not cease to exist, and with an effort resisting decay, oblivion and extinction. She makes work inspired by chance encounters, oral histories, and her own experiences. The artist who chases stories employs a variety of media including video, installation, photography, painting etc. and aims to understand and reflect what is now and exists.