New abnormal is the new ‘black’

In his works, Turkish artist Berkay Tuncay focuses on a new kind of depiction of the life that we are living. He aims to show how internet culture affects society with the unstopping information flow. Within his creative process, he shows us new abnormal ways to think.

Tuncay loves to work with different mediums and lets the viewer think about his thought process through his use of language and mediums.

In his current exhibition titled "Human, how strange, so vulgar, such a masterpiece and yet so primitive" at Sanatorium, Tuncay once again focuses on how the internet affects the way we exist today, while he traces how we speak, how we communicate and how we create our living in internet culture.

He defines his art as building bridges between history and today, using how we present ourselves on the internet as human beings.

"I aim to make connections between different periods," he said, adding that he is trying to present the phase we are going through using different kinds of communication styles. One of these communication styles is "mark-making."

"I am interested in how human beings have marked their signs in the world from prehistoric to modern times. That's why in this exhibition I have created a mural painting. It might seem like this is graffiti at first, but it is not. I have created this work using prehistoric methods, like the first human beings used cave art. In a way, I am trying to explain how cultural social impact worked within history."

The mural painting is depicting SpongeBob, a very popular animated character that we used to see on TV or the internet.

Tuncay applies two memes applied on the gallery walls: To-Do List: Nothing and Nobody Cares (2020). "I preferred to use tempera and charcoal to mix...