May Parlar
International residency
september - october 2018
May Parlar. Istambul, 1981
May Parlar is a New York / Istanbul based photography and video artist with degrees in Architecture & Sustainable Design. May creates performative images exploring the notions of belonging, identity, perception and normative social influences. She is especially interested in examining human condition via documenting the nomadic experience of being / performing in constructed realities, which perpetually are transformed, warped and deconstructed in her work. Her works has been screened and exhibited internationally in US, UK, Italy, Germany, Turkey and Greece. She is also a video activist and documentary filmmaker, producing socially relevant work with community media groups and been part of video collectives such as Paper Tiger TV. Apart from her art and media practice, May is an instructor of Art & Design, leads architectural design courses and lectures on sustainability at various universities.
