Discover the contemporary work of Ali Atakay

Born in 1995, lives and works as a translator, researcher in Paris. Inspired by surrealism and pop culture, his work explores the boundary between text and image. Through his works, he recontextualizes the everyday, transforming fragments of life and words into visual and poetic compositions.

Also working with other supports such as clay, he constantly seeks new media to expand his artistic creation.

Atakay uses a polysemic approach where each collage is an interactive superposition between text and image. The words are not simply annotations or explanations; they are integrated as visual elements, playing with shapes and sometimes colors to create a living dialogue with the fragments of the images. The bits of sentences twist and mingle with the visual textures, giving birth to works where the boundary between reading and contemplation is subverted. His artistic process is nourished by the relationship to the perceived world, to agency and to multiple identities. By mixing newspaper excerpts, literary quotes and fragments of correspondence, we observe a mosaic of meanings, where words and images respond, contradict and complement each other, inviting viewers to a plural reading where the text can become a texture, a shadow or a focal point. It makes each work a unique epistemological experience, where personal experience meets everyday life through a stratified visual language.