Polat Tayir

Polat Tayir is originally from Xinjiang, Uyghur province of the Republic of China. He continued his art studies in France, in 2005, at the Ecole des Beaux de Paris, Atelier Abraham Pincas. He is now a doctor of plastic arts.

His work explores the idea of the integration of an individual in society and seeks a relationship between him and things, between his body and the landscape. His approach combines painting and photography: originally a simple painting on a cliché, the artist covers his hand with paint, on the spot; a performance that he immortalizes in the moment by a photograph.

From 2006, he undertakes a series of photographs of his painted hand, as an extension or detour of the landscape. His hand is the central element, representing himself and his being, telling his story. The lines of his hand are in the landscape, merging and confronting it, like the slow process of integration of an individual into a new culture. In his latest series, Fulati integrates a glove, a tangible trace of the performance but above all a substitute for his body.

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