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M Kara
Türkiye
Artist highlights
- Favorited by galleries
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
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Artwork details
- Medium : Acrylic, Wax on Canvas
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 24x20in
About this artwork
This work was born from the remnants of a face.
Something here is familiar — an eye, a lip, the whiteness of teeth — yet the whole remains just out of reach. A diagonal line cleaves the face in two; one half visible, the other dissolving into a golden silence. This fracture is not accidental. It is the tension of our time, the exhausting negotiation of identity in a world that never stops transforming.
Digital existence, displacement, layered cultures,… social pressure; together they reduce identity to a remnant. What survives? A gaze. A trace. A cracked surface.
Cold wax and sand carry the physical weight of time on this surface. The cracks formed on their own. I only chose to keep them. Because disintegration, too, is a narrative.
Remains is both noun and verb: what is left behind, and the act of continuing to exist. Fragmented, but still here.
Something here is familiar — an eye, a lip, the whiteness of teeth — yet the whole remains just out of reach. A diagonal line cleaves the face in two; one half visible, the other dissolving into a golden silence. This fracture is not accidental. It is the tension of our time, the exhausting negotiation of identity in a world that never stops transforming.
Digital existence, displacement, layered cultures,… social pressure; together they reduce identity to a remnant. What survives? A gaze. A trace. A cracked surface.
Cold wax and sand carry the physical weight of time on this surface. The cracks formed on their own. I only chose to keep them. Because disintegration, too, is a narrative.
Remains is both noun and verb: what is left behind, and the act of continuing to exist. Fragmented, but still here.
M Kara
Türkiye
Credentials
- Favorited by galleries
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
M. Kara (formerly Müberra Karamanoğlu, also spelled Muberra Karamanoglu) is a Turkish-born artist working between New York and Ankara.Her work centers on layered portraiture, where the figure is treated as a surface—cut, veiled, and transformed through material.
Using burlap, rope, thread, tulle, and fabric collage, Kara builds compositions that shift and interrupt the image. Rooted in personal memory and textile traditions of the Black Sea region, these materials carry both physical and emotional weight.
Through layering, cutting, and stitching, the figure emerges through tension rather than control. Her works exist between visibility and concealment, where identity remains unresolved and in constant flux.
Using burlap, rope, thread, tulle, and fabric collage, Kara builds compositions that shift and interrupt the image. Rooted in personal memory and textile traditions of the Black Sea region, these materials carry both physical and emotional weight.
Through layering, cutting, and stitching, the figure emerges through tension rather than control. Her works exist between visibility and concealment, where identity remains unresolved and in constant flux.
M Kara
Remains
$2,810
