Apsara is proud to present ‘Tidelands’ by Begüm Yamanlar. Born and based in Turkey, Yamanlar is an artist and academic whose practice is primarily based in photography and video. Her work explores transcorporeality, posthuman relations, and material processes, using superimposition, temporal layering, and spatial entanglements to speculate on large-scale material and geological transformations. Her research considers how bodies, matter, and environments co-constitute one another beyond human-centred perception.

Begüm Yamanlar is an artist and academic specializing in photography and video art. She holds a PhD in Cinema and Media Research and a BA in Photography and Video from Bahçeşehir University, and an MA in Visual Arts from Sabancı University. Her doctoral research focused on the sublime in waterscapes in contemporary art. Currently, she is lecturing on Visual Arts, Photography, and Video Art at Istanbul Bilgi University in Istanbul. Her works have been showcased in solo exhibitions, including Gallery Zilberman, Öktem Aykut Gallery, and Şerefiye Cistern. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions at international art institutions such as Istanbul Modern (‘Panorama: Dreams and Places’, ‘Close Quarters’), ArtCOP in France, Landskrona Museum (‘Istanbul Modern – Landskrona’), and the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design in the Philippines (‘The Surface of the World: Architecture and the Moving Image’). Recent and selected exhibitions include Marés (Menorca, Spain), TERRA (Beaune, France), Yesterday Today Istanbul at Sabancı Museum, Rounded by Sleep at Arter, and Grief & Pleasure at Odunpazarı Modern Museum (OMM). Her work is part of public and private collections, including the permanent collection of Istanbul Modern. In 2025, she was an artist-in-residence at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, further advancing her artistic research. Her ongoing practice explores material and immaterial landscapes through composite photography and moving image, reflecting on large-scale ecological transformations.