Lara Törün

Lara Törün (b.1998, Istanbul) studied at Aydın Doğan Fine Arts High School and later at the Graphic Design Department of Doğuş University. Throughout her education she focused on visual memory, spatial perception and the relationship between objects and space, gradually translating these explorations into a painterly language.

Her artistic practice investigates the fragile connections between ordinary objects of everyday life and personal memory. Interior spaces, pieces of furniture, chandeliers and ceramics appear in her works not as decorative elements, but as fragments of memory—displaced, detached, and suspended in time. By placing these objects into empty and unsettling scenes, she invites the viewer into a tense realm between the familiar and the uncanny.

Each composition resembles a theatrical stage with its own specific sense of time. A quiet and slightly melancholic atmosphere emerges through the uncanny harmony of colours and the deliberate imperfection of the spaces she constructs. Elements such as stars, empty chairs or upside-down pieces of furniture become part of Törün’s exploration of the playful, often timeless nature of memory. In this sense, her paintings function as visual practices of remembrance, tracing the collective and individual memory embedded in objects.

Rather than conveying a predetermined narrative, Törün constructs open-ended metaphors, allowing the viewer to project their own experiences onto these scenes. In doing so, she invites us to reconsider how something seemingly ordinary can hold emotional weight and to sense the fragile and poetic nature of memory through the medium of painting.