Nurbanu Asena
Visible to me...

SUB30 resident Nurbanu Asena is the first Turkish artist visiting Buenos Aires in our residency program who also will inaugurate the new year 2014. Nurbanu will be working during the month of January in her project Visible for me, visible for you,  which involves a reflection on the places and  personal interpretations as well as a dialogue among traditional drawing and photography.

Nurbanu Asena is a freelance animation and illustration artist with a passion for writing stories, poems and living around the world as much as possible. She worked on various commercial and independent productions. Her short film, “One Random Day In Istanbul” got selected to be produced with Canlandiranlar(Animators) Talent Camp in Istanbul and shown in various festivals around the world. The following year, she worked as a creative animation lead for the animated parts of PABLO, the feature  documentary about Pablo Ferro. Currently she works freelance between Istanbul and New York as a commissioned illustrator and animator.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Inspired by my Sketchbook Diaries Project, I would like to visit different countries around the world and get inspired by new cultures and art forms and create location based illustrations / art to be combined and exhibited with photos taken at those locations. As we all have different state of moods and minds, our “looking” and “seeing” things/places and people change.  While learning new and traditional art forms, I would like to create a series of art/ illustrations, that will serve like “diaries” or “Collection of memoirs” . In the end, they will carry the sincerity of a diary while showing/ illustrating the scene through my mind and eyes.