The beautiful and timeless images of Ayline Olukman hold of a mixed technique where photography, painting and screenprinting generate eminently poetic compositions, even totally unreal.
The photography becomes a medium following the example of a representational element on which the sets of glacis, the paint are going to develop and to reveal a new image by opening the look to another dimension.
Between nostalgia, regret of the last days, fruits of the lost paradises grant us fragments of eternity.
Fruits of the desire, palm trees of the edenic islands, the sea in which we get lost body and soul, testify of a somewhere else idyllic, a dreamed exoticism which makes our imagination travel.
But at the same time, we notice very fast that fruits in the tasty colors carry in them the thankless signs of our finiteness.
A pineapple put down on a tissue in the faded tones tells us this inexorable leak of time. The worm is inevitably held in the fruit which, sometimes, rots where dries out in " a still life " herald of this loss which corrupts any sense of the happiness at the very moment when we believe to hold it and where we celebrate it
Because nothing is ever eternal, seems to tell us Ayline Olukman who exempts us through its works these bright "day vestiges" which, in their esthetic beauty, their timeless poetry, did not stop re-enchanting a world which is made and comes crumples in the will of our life.
Painter, photographer and writer who was born in Strasbourg-France and currently lives in New York.
In 2005, She has been graduated of a MFA in Art at ESAD- Art school of Strasbourg.
Solo shows (selection)
- 2015 The lost beach, Galerie Artima, Paris
- 2015 Impossible Passion, Alan Istanbul Gallery (Turkey)
- 2015 Galleri Backlund, Goteborg (Sweden)
- 2014 Where the Summer Goes, Galerie Artima, Paris
- 2014 Paradis perdus, Galerie Bertand Gillig, Strasbourg
- 2013 Solo project room, Istanbul Biennal, Alan Istanbul Gallery (Turkey)
- 2013 Galleri Backlund, Goteborg (Sweden)
- 2012 Midcentury Oasis, Galerie Artima, Paris
- 2012 Suspended moment, Alan Istanbul Gallery (Turkey)
- 2012 Turkey Sunday afternoon, Galerie Artima, Paris
- 2012 Crossroads, Galerie Bertrand Gillig, Strasbourg
- 2012 Galerie Courant d’Art, Mulhouse
- 2011 Galerie des remparts, Bordeaux
- 2011 Galleri Backlund, Goteborg (Sweden)
- 2010 Behind cities, Galerie Artima, Paris
- 2010 Galerie Espace G/Gillig, Strasbourg
Group shows (selection)
- 2016 AAF Bruxelles, International Art Fair (Belgium) with Galerie Bertrand Gillig
- 2016 Pas si Love ! Edition 3, galerie Bertrand Gillig
- 2016 Behond territories, Waltman Ortega Gallery , Miami (USA)
- 2015 Summer exhibition , Bertrand Delacroix Gallery, New-York (USA)
- 2015 From here to eternity, Jos Joos Gallery, Bruxelles (Belgique)
- 2015 Art Palm Beach, with Bertrand Delacroix Gallery (USA)
- 2014 Summer exhibition, Bertrand Delacroix Gallery, New-York (USA)
- 2014 Scope New-York, International Art Fair (USA) with Galerie Bertrand Gillig
- 2014 AAF Amsterdam, Honk-Kong & New-York with Aperture Gallery
- 2013 Contemporary Art Fair Istanbul with Alan Istanbul Gallery (Turkey)
- 2012 St-Art, St-Art, International Art Fair Strasbourg with Galerie Bertrand Gillig
- 2012 AAF Bruxelles, International Art Fair (Belgium) with Galerie Bertrand Gillig
- 2011 Scope Basel, (Switzerland) International Art Fair with Galerie Bertrand Gillig
- 2011 Art Beat Istanbul, International Art Fair (Belgium) with Alan Istanbul Gallery (Turkey)
- 2011 St-Art, St-Art, International Art Fair Strasbourg with Galerie Bertrand Gillig
- 2011 PopArt extended, Alan Istanbul Gallery (Turkey)
- 2010 Urbanity, Galerie Alain Daudet, Toulouse
- 2008 AAF London, Galerie Envie d’Art, Londres (UK)
- 2008 Mac 2008, Paris
- 2008 Art Shanghai, Shanghai (China)