Born in 1986 in Istanbul, Burcu Erden has been teaching at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, where she holds a BA and MA.
Erden proceeds through the relationship to be established between the sculpture and the viewer during the production process; questions the determinacy of the scale and position in this relationship. By playing with the scale of the sculpture, she reshapes the defined visual patterns associated with power. In her works, in which she focuses on the position of the sculpture, she freezes the figures in an uncomfortable, inappropriate, sometimes odd way, squeezing them in a form they cannot sustain. In both approaches, the artist invites the viewer to look at these images again and question the time and place they are in, along with the associations they carry. While Erden reveals the uncomfortable and fragile states of the postures with all the subtleties when she shapes them with mud when she
transforms it into a high-strength composite material, she creates the dilemma that they are in a sustainable position. Dynamic modulation on the surface, light and shadow movements and tension in angles have a contrasting liveliness to this dullness.