Cenin von Catlien

Cenin von Catlien a.k.a. Burcu Çorbaci Dream with your eyes open and see with your eyes closed... - Cenin, my alter ego, means "fetus" in English. I live and work in mind, womb, tomb and Istanbul. I’m an autodidactic, self-taught, intuitive, visionary artist since 2005. My favourite technique is traditional media via colored pencils, crayons, felt-tip pens, markers. - I study the appearances or phenomena of the psyche - the various appearances and manifestations and forms that the psyche produces - and understood them with a depth of insight, then I reflect in my own image. - Art for me is a direct method of accessing the collective unconscious. I use art to bring forward messages from my own personal unconscious using universal archetypes, symbols, subliminal messages, forms, colors, meshed with my personal - complex - iconographic - visual vocabulary. - My symbols do call up unconscious memories and infantile anxieties, but they also disclose a reality that never existed before and a need of self-reparation. So while my symbols do have a psychotic regressive side, they also have a progressive side. It is a progressive revelation of a universal structure that goes beyond the individual personal experience. - My works concerns self alienation & actualization, the psychic state of infant hero, the after-effects of a child’s separation from the mother through birth, the feelings of death-despair-melancholy, unfulfilled feminine idenitity, inner images of wounded mother & child, being unable to speak, traumatic feelings of being born, life vs. death instinct, alienation, self destruction & reparation, sacrificial infant/fetus gods, divine child, lost & found reality, layers of consciousness, dramatization of simulations, infantile anxiety, Jungian archetypal symbolism, gnosticism, occultism, juxtaposition of depressive and manic, mental interconnectivity... Zombies, aliens, robots, mutants, androids, creatures, weirdos, freaks, monsters, animals, outsiders, insiders and proletarians of all countries, unite! Museums and Exhibitions: 2010 - My artwork “Infant Death Funeral Service" were selected for the "I am Abnormal II" group exibition that will take place in Abnormals Gallery Berlin, Germany (11.12.2010-13.01.2011) and Abnormals Gallery Poznan, Poland (22.01.2011-14.02.2011). 2010 - MAC - Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Senhor do Bonfim, Bahia, Brazil (Contemporary Art Museum of the city-Senhor do Bonfim) My artwork “Dichotomy Incarnate” ha