Dilek Yördem & Başar Kurnaz

Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University

Hâyâl (Dream)

Dilek Yördem is a lecturer and designer at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. She is also an illustrator and works with some publishers in Turkey, like Yapı Kredi Culture Arts and Publishing. Some of her works were exhibited at the Pera Museum, London Illustration Fair, The Island Bristol, and VOX-POP (the creative space of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam). She continues her studies under the name “+entia” by researching the interactions of paper and physical effects such as light.

Başar Kurnaz, born in 1989 in Izmir/Turkey, graduated from the Visual Communication Design Department at Izmir University of Economics in 2012. The artist started his coincidental, personal works during his university years. After graduation, he worked in advertising agencies as an advertising professional. Besides paintings, the artist focuses more on digital art, typography, audio-visual works, and illustration. Some of his works were published in Turkish magazines, and he joined collective exhibitions such as the “Speculative Futurism: Inverting the Archive” exhibition organized by VOX-POP at the University of Amsterdam. The artist continues working on his practice in Istanbul.