ISTANBUL.- Selma G黵b鼁 is presenting her new solo exhibition, “Daydream” at Rampa from June 4th through July 12th.營n this exhibition we have G黵b鼁’s 2014 works of photographs and light boxes and we can see how she has continued爄n the same vein as爃er most recent work of almost web like canvas paintings of爊ature, but now on a different爉edium.

This exhibition, that is taking place in Rampa’s street level gallery, presents new works incorporating photographs燝黵b鼁爃as爐aken on her trips to India. In the beginning these photographs were a way for the artist to document her trips,燽ut as they made way to more abstract images,爐he idea for this爀xhibition was born.燱ith unmanipulated photographs of an extremely dense forest full of very tall tropical trees,燝黵b鼁爎elates to us the feeling of being lost in that untouched space,爌reserving the act of being within爊ature,燼s well as燽eing a part of it. The weblike branches, intertwining vines and shadows of the wild habitat爄n G黵b鼁’s爌hotographs transport the viewer into the artist’s personal and mysterious world. These new works make reference to her own meticulously crafted ink爋n paper燿esigns and also reminds us of her storybook animal and human figures.

Selma G黵b鼁 (1960) was born in İstanbul, Turkey. After having studied at Exeter College of Art Design between 1980-1982, she graduated from Marmara University Fine Arts Faculty in 1984. Her recent solo exhibitions include “Long Night. Faraway Voyages.”, Rampa, İstanbul (2013); “Mind’s Eye”, Lawrie Sahbibi Gallery, Dubai (2011); “Shadows of Myself”, Rose Issa Projects at Leighton House Museum, London (2011); “Archetypes”, Warehouse (Antrepo) No: 3, İstanbul (2010), “Sunny Shadows”, Gallery Apel, İstanbul (2008) and Makii Masaru Fine Arts, Tokyo (2007); “Feline I”, Galerie Maeght, Paris (2006); “Feline II”, Gallery Apel, İstanbul (2006); “The Fairy and the Genie”, Gallery Apel, İstanbul (2004), “Y黱name”, Gallery Apel, İstanbul (2000) and “Karaname”, Gallery Apel, İstanbul (1999). G黵b鼁 has also participated in many national and international group exhibitions including “From Traditional to Contemporary” (2010), “New Works, New Horizons” (2009) and “Modern Experiences” (2008), İstanbul Modern, İstanbul; “Cara a Cara” (travelling show), with Marco Del Re, Galerie Maeght, Paris and Barcelona (2003); “Fantaisies du Harem et les Nouvelles Sh閔閞azades” (travelling show), Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona and Museum of Natural History, Lyon (2003); “Le Cirque” (travelling show), G閞ard-Georges Lemaire, Editions Eric Koehler, Athenee-Theatre Louis Jouvet, Paris, Espace Mira Phalaina, Montreuil and Novomestka Radnice, Prague (1996). Her other projects include “Shadow theatre design for ‘More Wind’”, Portside Gallery, Yokohama (2005) and “Futurist Stage Curtain Design”, Revues Parl閑s, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1996); “Automatic Games”, Kwangju Biennale, Korea (1995) and “L’Orient des Caf閟” (traveling show), French Cultural Centre, Cairo, Alexandria, Athens, Thessaloniki, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv (1992).

Selma G黵b鼁 lives and works in İstanbul, Turkey.