Elif Sezen is an Australian/Turkish multi-disciplinary artist, researcher, bilingual writer and poet. She was born in Melbourne in 1981, and has lived both in Izmir (Western Turkey) and Melbourne. She settled in Naarm/Melbourne in 2007.
MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTIST AND POETElif Sezen
Elif holds a PhD in Fine Art from Monash University and her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
Her practice evolved through various media including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, print media, installation, digital media, artists' books, music and poetry. In her work, she speculates upon reconceptualising memory traces emerging from familial, personal, collective trauma and loss.
This explorative process leads her to a restorative and even a celebratory notion of self-construction, desire, longing and a sense of homecoming.
Elif is the author of Universal Mother (Gloria SMH Press) and A Little Book of Unspoken History (Puncher & Wattmann).
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