Hatice Alper
“In my work, emptiness functions as both a perceptual and conceptual experience. Within the passage between the visible and the invisible, the status of the object is transformed; form withdraws from representation and assumes an essential mode of being. The relationship between surface, space, and object therefore operates as an integrated field rather than as separate elements.
Ultimately, space and emptiness become the subject of the work. The surface shifts from being the site of painting to becoming a domain of existence. Emptiness is not an absence, but a mode of relation through which being rearticulates itself. What fails to attain presence within emptiness is reborn between perception and meaning, inviting the viewer beyond the visual into a deeper perceptual field where relations are shaped through shifting states of coexistence rather than fixed oppositions.
Within this expanded field of perception, what emerges is not only aesthetic, but also ethical. Peace arises here not as the resolution of opposites, but as a mode of coexistence in which difference is neither erased nor opposed. Emptiness becomes the ground on which such relations become possible — an interval in which no element dominates another. Meaning is no longer fixed within a single center, but continuously shifts and reconfigures itself. In this sense, emptiness is not only an aesthetic or conceptual condition, but a perceptual field in which a non-violent form of coexistence becomes imaginable, remaining open rather than resolved.”
Hatice Alper was born in Batman, Türkiye, in 1998. She studied painting and sculpture at Siirt Takasbank Fine Arts High School from 2012 to 2016. In 2016, she was admitted as the top-ranked student to Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, Department of Art Education, where she focused on painting, sculpture, and printmaking, graduating second in her class in 2020. Alper received the Exhibition Award at the 77th State Painting and Sculpture Competition. She has participated in approximately thirty exhibitions, including international competitions, symposia, as well as group and solo shows. Her works are included in private collections in Türkiye. She currently continues her artistic practice in her studio.
“Emptiness”, 2026, oil on canvas (70×50cm)
