Defne Samman is an artist based in İstanbul, Turkey. She graduated from the Ceramic & Glass Department at Mimar Sinan Fine Art university. She has been an art director for commercial films for a while. She designs and creates tablewares for chefs and art works, objects for architectural projects.
During these busy years Defne Samman creates her art pieces as an independent artist in her studio based in Beşiktaş/İstanbul.
Searching for the possibilities of all kind of materials from nature to industrial products. She believes that the human condition in it’s complexity can only be tracked and communicated through that kind of investigation. Earth itself, being the sole generator of all those materials, has always been the primary medium for Samman. Even so, she searches for the possibilities of all kind of materials from nature to industrial products, believing in that the human condition in it’s subtle complexity can only be tracked and communicated through that kind of investigation.
She endeavors to place the dialogues of disappearance, re-finding and transformation in every piece she products.
Thus, the Mother Earth series reflects that ideal as a whole: Once lost for Man’s modern world, found and grasped as a possibility of paradigma shift in the new era of Woman and now transformed for a discussion for future generation. The conversation has just begun.
