Mina Barut, born in 1999 and originally from Antalya, Turkey, is an architect and visual/conceptual artist based in Istanbul. She graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2022. She reflects on her personal experiences through various techniques and unconventional materials. Material, to her, is a series of possibilities; it appears as a living, aging, changing entity that makes its own decisions. Mina's intervention is merely a part of this organic process, with the resulting temporary outcome shaped by the collaboration of instinct and the decisions made by the material. Her manipulations are interventions that shape the decisions of the materials, acting as her collaborators. This interaction between material and manipulation is a play on the pre-existing consciousness of these tools.
Mina's process embraces the acts of creation, leaving marks, and making mistakes rather than pursuing aesthetic beauty. Her creations are far from static; they are entities that change, age, transform, and evolve. They live with her, sharing the same journey. Her act of creation provides a space to explore these interactions. The production of the finished work takes a secondary role compared to the experience she has with the material and herself. The essence is the process, the journey.
Mina's process embraces the acts of creation, leaving marks, and making mistakes rather than pursuing aesthetic beauty. Her creations are far from static; they are entities that change, age, transform, and evolve. They live with her, sharing the same journey. Her act of creation provides a space to explore these interactions. The production of the finished work takes a secondary role compared to the experience she has with the material and herself. The essence is the process, the journey.