Divergence Effect
2021 
Divergence Effect; #1, 2021, Acrylic on Paper, 76x66 cm.
Divergence Effect; #2, 2021, Acrylic on Paper, 76x66 cm.
Divergence Effect; #1, 2021, Acrylic on Paper, 76x66 cm.
Divergence Effect; #2, 2021, Acrylic on Paper, 76x56 cm.


The Divergence Effect refers to the visuality that appears as the visual component of the existing and continuous image and emerges with linear additions that complement it. This effect; becomes evident with liberating and expressive moves that change the structuring conditions of the painting. It is like a counterpart to the state of moving away from the form and content burden that characterizes a period. Therefore, this deviation orientation, which points to a visuality loaded with neurotic emotions and thoughts formed after a major trauma; At the same time, it is an intervention towards the formal quality of imagination and the power relations that complement it, with a drift that constantly violates the connections of space. It adds a new tension and dynamism to the painting. It reinforces the operational quality of the image as a multidimensional pattern.

Mümtaz Sağlam, Copright© 2022.



Selected Works
Divergence Effect; #3, 2021, Acrylic Ink on Paper, 56x76 cm.
Divergence Effect; #4, 2021, Acrylic Ink on Paper, 56x76 cm.



Divergence Effect; #3, Detail, 2021, Acrylic Ink on Paper, 56x76 cm.
Divergence Effect; #4, 2021, Acrylic Ink on Paper, 56x76 cm.


This Divergence Effect, which appears as an emphasis on difference that does not harm the abstract image of the image but carries it to a more relational integrity; it expresses a new understanding that reinforces the ambiguity of the formal pattern, with the priority given to a fluid visuality. Imagination; it clearly preserves its shapeless, variable, flexible, and independent state in a new visual attack process. These linear acts that transform the image with external interventions; it has a more damaged and hybrid power, image and excess that shakes the body typology. With manipulative moves, it penetrates the operational nature of the existing image and reveals a more interactive and psychic pattern network. We are now in front of us with a post-traumatic imagination that shapes its conceptual integrity with new psychic emphases.

Mümtaz Sağlam, Copright© 2021.






#6, 2021, Acrylic on Ink Paper, 38x28 cm.#8, 2021, Acrylic Ink on Paper, 76x56 cm.#11, 2021, Acrylic Ink on Paper, 76x56 cm.
#5, 2021, Acrylic on Ink Paper, 38x28 cm.#33, 2021, Acrylic Ink on Paper, 76x56 cm.
#12, 2021, Acrylic Ink on Paper, 76x56 cm.#14, 2021, Acrylic on Ink Paper, 38x28 cm.
#7, 2021, Acrylic Ink on Paper, 76x56 cm.#10, 2021, Acrylic Ink on Paper, 76x56 cm.#13, 2021, Acrylic Ink on Paper, 76x56 cm.  #15, 2021, Acrylic on Ink Paper, 38x28 cm.