about me

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Selin Sel (b. 2002) is a Brooklyn-based artist from Istanbul, Turkey.

 

Working primarily with acrylic glass, she builds topographical sculptures through a self-developed fabrication process that enacts the same control the work is about. The body as subject matter is constantly disciplined through a rigid system.

 

In earlier works, the imagery is outwardly neutral. Cavities, openings, and interiors imply associations of intimacy and sexuality under conditions of constraint.

 

This extends into an engagement with womanhood and motherhood. Her undergraduate thesis, Womb/Tomb, acts both as a site of protection and limit. The work is less concerned with rejecting inherited structures than with the difficulty of separating from them. Growth is conditional.

 

Domesticity and inheritance recur throughout. The source material becomes a medium through which memory is continually revised.

 

Plastic, culturally aligned with ideals of utility and appearance, functions as both material and concept. Transparency forces the work to be in flux based on the movement of the viewer. Parts become alternately exposed and obscured. Visibility becomes an active contributor, placing the work in a state of continuous exposure and transformation.