AYŞE GÜL SÜTER

Adopting scientific concepts into her work, Ayşe Gül Süter places color and light at the center of her art practice. She is the only artist to have received an official artist-in-residence invitation from the Biomedical Research Institute in Barcelona, where she spent a year in 2018 researching the principles of both light optics and human cell structures. She incorporated these experiences into a large-scale stained glass installation at Recinte Modernista Sant Pau, Europe’s largest Art Nouveau site.

Ayşe Gül Süter (b. 1982, Istanbul) graduated from the Department of Animation and Digital Arts at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2010. She collaborates with scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Massachusetts on projects that research marine biological life, such as plankton and marine plants, using microscopic technologies. Currently, she resides and works in Istanbul at her studio, where she experiments with bacteria, tear drops, crystals, plankton, and plants in her art/science laboratory. These biological activities serve as inspiration for her art, which she translates into glass sculptures and installations. These “hybrid formations” both reflect and emit light, often reminiscent of familiar organic forms.

In creating these works, she uses industrial painting tools to manage the complexity of large-scale glass paintings. Her knowledge of light and color theory allows her to transcend the physical and sensory boundaries of the audience's experience, making her work both visually and intellectually stimulating.