An Exhibition “Lucid Dreaming” by Ebru Uygun

Installation view / / © Copyright Ebru Uygun, Green Art Gallery

Promoting the works of the region’s pioneering modern artists from across the Middle East and North Africa since 1995, Green Art Gallery was one of the first institutions to exhibit Arab art in Dubai. In 2008, leveraging its long and rich history in the market, Green Art Gallery also began to represent and showcase contemporary artists from the Middle East, North Africa, and Turkey. In this manner the gallery is one of few whose knowledge and expertise spans the Arab art movement from modernism to contemporary.

“Lucid Dreaming”

Jagged, edgy and displaced, Ebru’s work centers around the deconstruction of traditional oil painting. She reverts back to customary techniques of painting creating works which consistently show a demolishing of her oeuvre and then a reconstruction. Such a practice couldn’t be better exemplified than by the technique of adding and then tearing of strips of her paintings which often led to the appearance of “scars” on her canvases. The artist then used scissors to cut up her canvases before putting them back together.

Ebru now works with four sheets of canvas which she paints and then deconstructs by hand. She also works with sound in her painting recording the process of deconstruction and reconstruction as if it were a performance.

Ebru Uygun, untitled, mixed media on canvas,200 x 200 cm, 2010 / © Copyright Ebru Uygun, Green Art Gallery

Ebru Uygun, Untitled, mixed media on canvas, 200x200 cm, 2010 / © Copyright Ebru Uygun, Green Art Gallery

Ebru Uygun, Untitled, mixed media on canvas, 200x200 cm, 2010 / © Copyright Ebru Uygun, Green Art Gallery

Ebru Uygun, Untitled, mixed media on canvas, 200x200 cm, 2010 / © Copyright Ebru Uygun, Green Art Gallery

Ebru Uygun, Untitled, mixed media on canvas, 200x200 cm, 2010 / © Copyright Ebru Uygun, Green Art Gallery