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While including architectural and historical references in his works, he also maintains an affinity for the templates of formalist painting.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.
Verdict, 2022, mixed media on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Invasion, 2022, Ink on paper, 50 x 70 cm
Red Church, 2022, Mixed media on paper, 50 x 70 cm
Drone, 2022, Mixed media on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Deserter, 2022, Mixed media on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Tomorrow, 2022, Mixed media on paper, 70 x 50 cm
Veil, 2022, Mixed media on paper, 70 x 50 cm
Obstruction, 2021, Ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Deportation, 2021, Ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Strata, 2021, Oil on canvas, 130 x 97 cm
Treasure, 2021, Oil on canvas, 103 x 103 cm
Forgotten, 2021, Oil on canvas, 100 x 140 cm
Colossus, 2021, Oil on canvas, 97 x 130 cm
Sumerki, 2021, Oil on canvas, 85 x 140 cm
Cengizland, 2021, Oil on canvas, 114 x 142 cm
Aujourd'hui, rien, 2021, Oil on canvas, 114 x 142 cm
"A New Capital City", 2021, oil on canvas,, 2021, Oil on canvas, 114 x 146 cm
Lawmaking Bliss, 2021, Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm
Crazy of Ancestry, 2018, Oil on canvas, 140 x 100 cm
Geist, 2016, Ink on paper, 100 x 151 cm
Everything That is Solid II, 2016, Oil on canvas, 80 x 60 cm
Il Duce, 2015, Ink on paper, 110 x 79 cm
Archmemory III, 2015, Bistre ink on paper, 39 x 54 cm
Archmemory II, 2015, Bistre ink on paper, 39 x 54 cm
Limits of Control, 2014, Ink on paper, 92 x 142 cm
Dereliction, 2014, Oil on canvas, 97 x 130 cm
A Terrible Beauty, 2013, Oil on canvas, 97 x 130 cm
Plunder, 2012, Acrylic on canvas, 145 x 290 cm
Freundschaft, 2012, Oil on canvas, 119 x 162 cm
Residence, 2012, Oil on canvas, 97 x 130 cm
Inventory I, 2012, Oil on canvas, 67 x 100 cm-2010-ink-on-paper-35x27cm-900x632.jpg)
Bad Seed I ("Absentpaedia" series), 2010, Ink on paper, 27 x 35 cm
Rupture, 2010, Ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Untitled, 2010, Ink on paper, 70 x 100 cm
Our Filth, 2007, Oil on canvas, 130 x 97 cm
Right, 2007, Oil on canvas, 130 x 97 cm
Bidonville, 2006, Oil on canvas, 89 x 119 cm
Fauna Flash, 2005, Oil on canvas, 89 x 119 cm