Born in 1986, Ayşegül Düşek graduated from Marmara University, Atatürk Faculty of Education, Department of Art Teaching, which was her first undergraduate education, in 2009. She completed her second undergraduate education at Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture in 2016. In 2020, she graduated from Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, Department of Painting with a thesis on “The Use of Literary Texts in Post-1990 Art”. In 2021, Düşek was accepted to Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, Painting Department, and is working on her thesis on “Artistic Practice of Ecosophical Experience”.
The designed project will be carried out by transforming abandoned beehives in the forest in the region where the artist lives into a new home for exotic plants that are not native to Turkey. The installation created with man-made artificial bee nests moved to the gallery
space and exotic plants whose distribution to different parts of the world dates back to the history of colonialism; It aims to provide an ecological layer to the readings of home, belonging, homeland, and migration.
Found Beehives, Exotic Plants, Installation, 2025
