YŞYusuf Şen
YUSUF ŞEN · EBRU · PAINTING · MOVING IMAGE

Water remembers.

An evolving artistic world where water, pigment, memory and time meet.

01 / ARTIST

Between image, water and time.

Yusuf Şen works across ebru, painting and moving image. The practice treats cultural memory, migration and material transformation as active forces rather than fixed subjects.

02 / EBRU

What is ebru?

Ebru is the art of shaping floating pigments on prepared water and transferring the image to paper. Here, water is not a neutral surface: it behaves, resists, carries traces and makes each image unrepeatable.

The image is not placed on water. It negotiates with water.
SERIES 01

Memory of Water

A series about trace, disappearance and the way movement becomes image.

SERIES 02

Water Tulip

The tulip appears not as ornament, but as a form emerging, dissolving and returning through water.

SERIES 03

The Answer of Water

A wider field connecting ebru, film and the memory of materials.

03 / WORKS

Selected works · 2026

Thirteen original ebru works from the current archive. No stock imagery, no invented works.

04 / MOVING IMAGE

Night Tulip / Gece Lalesi

Water becomes duration. The image leaves the page and enters time.

05 / ARCHIVE

Art is not an archive of the past. It is a surface that keeps changing.

For exhibitions, collaborations and further context, open the current portfolio.

Language / Dil / Sprache