Leave Me Alone (2021)

Collage, hand writing

Produced especially for and displayed exclusively in this exhibition.
This piece is about unthoughtful human ambitions which are distressing animals. The Napoleon fish is a popular aquarium fish all around the world. His origin is the red sea.
Deniz’s concept-driven works explore the intersections and points of entanglement between economics and nature. She focuses on the human-nature relationship. She is interested in how the idea of nature is shaped by different value systems throughout history, and in today's ecological concerns. Her recent works revolve around the losses, transformations and extinctions in particular geographies, as well as sites of inequality between humans and non-humans.