Collection: VARDAL CANİŞ

Vardal Caniş (b. 1990) is a multidisciplinary artist who uses the possibilities of painting, illustration and textual content. He uses production tools to keep records and create a historical perspective. He aims for his works to fix reality in the dimension of time. Thus, he provides the opportunity to stop, recreate and return to time when necessary. He emphasizes the quality and absoluteness of time that transcends memory, as opposed to its linear, continuous, quantitative and lost nature. The basis of his works is the awareness that memory carries a conscientious responsibility.

Caniş published a fanzine called “Arabesk” (2015-2018) and the magazine “Saturday After” (2019) which was published online during the pandemic. He organized his first solo exhibition called “Yetiştiğim Yerler” (2017) which he created with drawings he made on the street walls of 15 houses where he lived and moved in Istanbul in a 9-year period. He worked as a cartoonist and writer in publications such as Calling Mag, Rağmen Edebiyat Dizisi, Bant Mag, Avlaremoz. He prepared visual designs for theater plays of productions such as Moda Sahnesi, Oyun Atölyesi, Saatler Kolektif and BKM.

VARDAL CANİŞ