Merve Tuna

Merve Tuna (b. 1984, Eskişehir) completed her BSc at Istanbul Technical University Product Design Department in 2006, and her MA in Womenswear Fashion Design and Technology Department at London College of Fashion in 2010.

Tuna’s work is object-oriented and narrative-based centering around the concepts that relate to the body. Situated at the confluence of psychoanalysis, mathematics, and film, her artistic process oscillates between rigorous formulation and material-based instinctive making. She explores how the concepts of trauma, pain, shame and power relations are embodied and manifested in objects, the tactile parallels between craft processes and psychosexuality, and the insights subject-object relations can provide into the human psyche.