ANİ ÇELİK AREVYAN

Photography artist Ani Çelik Arevyan considers her work in terms of making rather than taking photographs. Through her positioning of photography as an aesthetic medium, she aims to offer the viewer a sphere to reconsider the way visual appreciation is distributed among the lost references of physical reality and imagination. Arevyan prefers to arrange her photographs along a thin line on which the time is erased yet the change is visible with all its abundance. The works are full of her own experiences and their visual language change and evolve according to her personal evaluation.

Ani Çelik Arevyan (1961, Istanbul) is a photography artist who works and lives in Istanbul. The artist who started her photography works in 1985, held her first solo exhibition in 1993 at the Istanbul Women’s Library and Information Centre. Arevyan has been exhibiting at Galeri Nev İstanbul since 1998 Other solo shows include Adas Istanbul (Istanbul, 2020), Kıraathane Istanbul Literature House (Istanbul, 2019), Galata Greek School (Istanbul, 2018), Istanbul Modern Museum of Art (Istanbul, 2010), Arevyan’a awards include Kodak Professional Europen Awards Turkey Championship (1990). The artist’s works are included

in collections such as Bibliothéque Nationale de France, Istanbul Modern Museum and private collections.