The Relationship Between Nature and Culture in Fiona Hall’s Installations

Year 2023, Issue: 41, 23 - 30, 31.03.2023

Şerife Şen Akkaş

https://doi.org/10.5152/AI.2023.22518

Abstract

Fiona Hall, one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists, produces works within the framework
of the concept of ecological destruction, which has become one of the most important problems
of our time. She produced works in painting, photography, sculpture, and various media and
gained fame with her numerous installations where she transforms various consumption objects
into works of art. The aim of this article is to examine the relationship between nature and culture
in Fiona Hall’s installations and to investigate the effects of nature–culture relationship on art
practice. The research focuses on the cultural references that Hall uses to ordinary objects while
transforming into aesthetic works of art. The data in the study were collected through literature
review. In the study, in which the semiotic analysis method was used, besides the meaning seen in
the works of the artist, connotation and deep meaning were examined. The artist has developed
a contemporary critical discourse over the work of art with cultural indicators. The relationship
between nature and culture has been presented with a political and critical point of view in his
aesthetic works of art that he created from ready-made objects.

Keywords

Contemporary art, culture, ecology, installation, nature

Fiona Hall’un Enstalasyonlarında Doğa ve Kültür İlişkisi

Abstract

Avustralya’nın önde gelen çağdaş sanatçılarından biri olan Fiona Hall, günümüzün en önemli
sorunlarından birisi haline gelen ekolojik yıkım kavramı çerçevesinde işler üretmektedir. Resim,
fotoğraf, heykel ve çeşitli medyalarda eserler üreten sanatçı çeşitli tüketim nesnelerini sanat
eserine dönüştürdüğü çok sayıdaki enstalasyonu ile ün kazanmıştır. Bu makalenin amacı Fiona
Hall’un enstalasyon çalışmalarında doğa ve kültür ilişkisini incelemek ve doğa-kültür ilişkisinin
sanat pratiğine etkilerini araştırmaktır. Araştırma, Hall’un sanat pratiğinde kullandığı sıradan
nesnelerin estetik birer sanat eserine dönüşürken aldığı kültürel referanslara odaklanmaktadır.
Araştırmada veriler literatür taraması yoluyla toplanmıştır. Göstergebilimsel çözümleme yönteminin
kullanıldığı çalışmada sanatçının eserlerinde görülen anlamın yanı sıra yan anlam ve derin
anlam incelenmiştir. Sanatçı kültürel göstergelerle sanat eseri üzerinden çağdaş eleştirel bir söylem
geliştirmiştir. Doğa ve kültür ilişkisi, onun hazır nesnelerden oluşturduğu estetik sanat eserlerinde,
politik ve eleştirel bir bakış açısı ile sunulmuştur.

Keywords

Doğa, kültür, enstalasyon, ekoloji, çağdaş sanat

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