Cruise

Burçak Bingöl has consistently expanded the language of ceramics within contemporary art in Türkiye. Trained in ceramics, she extends her practice into pattern, photography, objects and installation, examining how personal memory and cultural memory take form. In Bingöl's work, tradition is not a nostalgic quotation. It becomes active again when it encounters the images of the present.

“Cruise” reconstructs the front of a truck in ceramic. An object associated with industry, speed and urban circulation is transformed into a fragile, ornamental surface. Motifs that recall Turkish decorative traditions bring handcraft and the logic of mass production into the same image. The work suggests that ideas of progress are shaped not only by technology but also by images and habits carried forward from the past. Within the Rixos Tersane Istanbul Art Collection, “Cruise” also resonates with the site's long history of making and production.