Melisa Mizrakli
NO.8
2014

About the Item

A fan of photography since her early childhood, Mizrakli graduated from Yeditepe University in Istanbul, Interior Decoration Department, and continued her higher education in London, where she started out her work as a photographer. Later on, she moved to New York to further develop her career as a photographer and enrolled in classes at the Photography Department of the New York Film Academy. She received a Master’s Degree in photography in Los Angeles, where she is currently based. Mizrakli has conducted many shooting sessions for Mica Studios and Bullet Magazine in New York and had two solo exhibitions in Los Angeles. She has recently participated in the Contemporary Istanbul Exhibition (November 2013). In some of her black and white works she uses the human body only as a pictorial sign in order to create almost abstract works. First made anonymous, the female model is then cloned and circularly multiplied. The result is a kind of wheel in which the repeated human body gives birth to a new, seemingly vegetal or mineral structure. Thus, the human element seems to be transformed into different other natural species. Rendered in two versions (positive and negative) this couple of works also calls to mind the yin-yang principle.

Creator:

Melisa Mizrakli

Creation Year:

2014

Dimensions:

Height: 39 in (99.06 cm)Width: 55 in (139.7 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)

Medium:

Digital,Photogram,Archival Pigment,Digital Pigment,Photographic Film,Photographic Paper

Movement & Style:

Contemporary

Period:

2010-