Chicek Bayramli
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As an architect turned artist, she practice is deeply informed by the concept of space and its impact on human experience. Through her vibrant, large-scale portraits, she explores themes of performance, transgression, identity, and power. By assembling fragments into finely detailed, fluid compositions, her works pulsate with flamboyant color, conjoining, merging, and blending their forms in aesthetics of riotous excess.
Bayramli's work aims to dismantle ideas of the binary or fixed identity of street photography and to embrace the notion of photography performance as a transformative tool to tell a story. Each of her portraits is an invitation to enter into a dialogue, to engage with the subjects, and to challenge preconceptions about the intersections of identity and power.
Through Chichek's use of color, form, and composition, I seek to disrupt the viewer's expectations and to create a sense of disorientation. She wants her work to be experienced as an immersive environment, where the boundaries between the physical and the imaginary blur, and where the viewer is invited to actively participate in the construction of meaning. Her practice is deeply rooted in my background as an architect and my interest in space and its relationship to identity. Just as architecture shapes the spaces we inhabit, so too does identity shape the way we move through the world. My portraits seek to capture the fluidity of identity and the ways in which it is constantly being renegotiated and reimagined.
As a founding member of the independent architects' collective "Pille," she is committed to exploring the intersections of architecture, art, and community engagement. In 2019, she was honored to receive the Tbilisi Multimedia Museum's award for her community-based project in Khinalig. This project allowed her to work with the local community to create a series of portraits that celebrated the unique identity and culture of this remote mountain village. In 2022 SEF Editions published her photobook "Within the mountains".
In Chichek Bayramli's practice, whether it is a large-scale portrait or a community-based project, her goal is to use the transformative power of art to challenge assumptions, disrupt expectations, and create new ways of seeing the world. She believes that through art can create new spaces for dialogue, for community, and for social change.
As an architect turned artist, she practice is deeply informed by the concept of space and its impact on human experience. Through her vibrant, large-scale portraits, she explores themes of performance, transgression, identity, and power. By assembling fragments into finely detailed, fluid compositions, her works pulsate with flamboyant color, conjoining, merging, and blending their forms in aesthetics of riotous excess.
Bayramli's work aims to dismantle ideas of the binary or fixed identity of street photography and to embrace the notion of photography performance as a transformative tool to tell a story. Each of her portraits is an invitation to enter into a dialogue, to engage with the subjects, and to challenge preconceptions about the intersections of identity and power.
Through Chichek's use of color, form, and composition, I seek to disrupt the viewer's expectations and to create a sense of disorientation. She wants her work to be experienced as an immersive environment, where the boundaries between the physical and the imaginary blur, and where the viewer is invited to actively participate in the construction of meaning. Her practice is deeply rooted in my background as an architect and my interest in space and its relationship to identity. Just as architecture shapes the spaces we inhabit, so too does identity shape the way we move through the world. My portraits seek to capture the fluidity of identity and the ways in which it is constantly being renegotiated and reimagined.
As a founding member of the independent architects' collective "Pille," she is committed to exploring the intersections of architecture, art, and community engagement. In 2019, she was honored to receive the Tbilisi Multimedia Museum's award for her community-based project in Khinalig. This project allowed her to work with the local community to create a series of portraits that celebrated the unique identity and culture of this remote mountain village. In 2022 SEF Editions published her photobook "Within the mountains".
In Chichek Bayramli's practice, whether it is a large-scale portrait or a community-based project, her goal is to use the transformative power of art to challenge assumptions, disrupt expectations, and create new ways of seeing the world. She believes that through art can create new spaces for dialogue, for community, and for social change.
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