Djochkoun Sami is a painter based in Istanbul, Turkey. Graduate of Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, Faculty of Painting, Istanbul (BFA, MFA), he is regularly exhibiting at various group shows, illustrated magazines, poetry books, theatre posters.
While including architectural and historical references in his works, he also maintains an affinity for the templates of formalist painting. The limited palette supporting his drawing based process indicates and makes visible an effort towards pictorial and formal values. Floating in between stylistic borders of expression and figuration, Sami’s works are frequently borrowing forgotten, abandoned architectural spaces belonging to the recent past, exposing possibilities for the existence of anonymous, depoliticized homogeneous spaces. In some of his recent works, stripped of any historicism or allusions, objects, rocks, organic matter and voids are accompanying a horizontally based perception of time.
Tomorrow, 2022, Mixed media on paper, 70 x 50 cm
Cengizland, 2021, Oil on canvas, 114 x 142 cm
Verdict, 2022, mixed media on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Bidonville, 2006, Oil on canvas, 89 x 119 cm
Crazy of Ancestry, 2018, Oil on canvas, 140 x 100 cm
Geist, 2016, Ink on paper, 100 x 151 cm
Fauna Flash, 2005, Oil on canvas, 89 x 119 cm
Treasure, 2021, Oil on canvas, 103 x 103 cm
Il Duce, 2015, Ink on paper, 110 x 79 cm
Archmemory III, 2015, Bistre ink on paper, 39 x 54 cm
Inventory I, 2012, Oil on canvas, 67 x 100 cm
Sumerki, 2021, Oil on canvas, 85 x 140 cm
Colossus, 2021, Oil on canvas, 97 x 130 cm
Strata, 2021, Oil on canvas, 130 x 97 cm
Plunder, 2012, Acrylic on canvas, 145 x 290 cm
Untitled, 2010, Ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Archmemory II, 2015, Bistre ink on paper, 39 x 54 cm
Red Church, 2022, Mixed media on paper, 50 x 70 cm
Plan B, 2022, Mixed media on paper, 70 x 150 cm (tryptich)
Rupture, 2010, Ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Our Filth, 2007, Oil on canvas, 130 x 97 cm
Deportation, 2021, Ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Limits of Control, 2014, Ink on paper, 92 x 142 cm
Obstruction, 2021, Ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Freundschaft, 2012, Oil on canvas, 119 x 162 cm
Dereliction, 2014, Oil on canvas, 97 x 130 cm
"A New Capital City", 2021, oil on canvas,, 2021, Oil on canvas, 114 x 146 cm
Forgotten, 2021, Oil on canvas, 100 x 140 cm
A Terrible Beauty, 2013, Oil on canvas, 97 x 130 cm
Drone, 2022, Mixed media on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Lawmaking Bliss, 2021, Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm-2010-ink-on-paper-35x27cm-900x632.jpg)
Bad Seed I ("Absentpaedia" series), 2010, Ink on paper, 27 x 35 cm
Everything That is Solid II, 2016, Oil on canvas, 80 x 60 cm
Deserter, 2022, Mixed media on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Right, 2007, Oil on canvas, 130 x 97 cm
Veil, 2022, Mixed media on paper, 70 x 50 cm
Invasion, 2022, Ink on paper, 50 x 70 cm
Residence, 2012, Oil on canvas, 97 x 130 cm
Aujourd'hui, rien, 2021, Oil on canvas, 114 x 142 cm