Betül Sefika
CIRCULATION PLAN
Places of interest that are well known on one side of the Stokvelde neighbourhood are not necessarily so on the other side. Betül Sefika attempted to set up a circulation plan to make the facades flutter and spread the beautiful things to other places in the neighbourhood. Curiosities are linked together and their copies are put together so that they can introduce themselves into new environments.
Betül on the Stokvelde neighbourhood, her creative process, and the tour she presented around her work.
During the first visit, we got off at the sunflower stop, I believe, at the Klaproos and Korenbloem residences. At the time, there were two flower-covered mounds made of construction waste, with butterflies fluttering around them. It was dead quiet, and someone remarked that 'he felt he had to whisper'. The term 'gnome village' was also mentioned. But there is also a lot that speaks for the neighbourhood. Places such as the pillar, the roundabouts, benches, trees, the Stokveldehoeve and even a pharmacy and a massage centre indicate that something should happen here, despite the silence they are currently experiencing.
My working process is mainly characterised by collecting these kinds of focal points in the neighbourhood. Although they certainly do not have to be architectural. I also collect less static sights, such as a strange parasol or a chair on a roof. Or stories from the residents. Or the stuffed fox behind a window that I once saw but can no longer remember where. The intention is to translate the collected places or objects into visual art, link them together and finally scatter them in other places in the neighbourhood. Hopefully, this will create movement. That one work is a reason to walk to another place in the neighbourhood.
During my tour, the connections between things become apparent. All the works have a partner, or together form a series. Whether this is due to the greatest possible distance between the partners or the character of the objects themselves will become clear then and there.
BIO
Betül Sefika (born 1995) is a visual artist, graphic designer and writer. In her visual work, she regularly plays with the character of her medium and seeks intimacy with the viewer through small scale and gaps. She has exhibited at OFGallery and Het Bos and has appeared in DW B and TIM magazine, where she wrote and illustrated a horoscope as resident astrologer.
Credits
Thanks to the residents who opened up their homes and shared their stories, and gave permission to create a work of art based on them.