The artist’s approach

Büyükkan’s statement in Arkas’s New Lands catalogue places Nosce Te Ipsum after her 2016 A Beautiful Place to Die works. She connects the injunction “know thyself” to a perfect geometric cavity in an unsettling, unlocatable landscape: no figure appears, yet geometry makes human presence felt.

Artist’s series statement · Arkas, New Lands catalogue ↗

Editorial reading

Read in this context, the triangle registers the mind that measures and orders nature. The viewer is implicated in the intervention rather than safely outside it. Self-knowledge becomes a question of how humanity claims the authority to separate itself from nature and give it form.