Yiğit Özen — Paintings
Yiğit Özen (decentralize*), b. 1994 in Istanbul, is an architect and XR web designer, founder of Virtually Ever After and decentralize design. The paintings here are made without sketches or a plan, decided as they go — acrylic, worked fast and left as it falls, closer to a photograph than a drawing. Figures build from clusters of cells and bubbles that never resolve into a body; at the edges, small toy-like figures look on. Made from 2018 across Istanbul, Milan and Luxembourg, alongside a parallel practice in spatial and virtual design.
penguin is not a friend, only a sinner
acrylic on 120x120 canvas, 2023 — painting by Yiğit Özen (decentralize*)
s(t)lop
acrylic on 55x75 canvas, 2026 — painting by Yiğit Özen (decentralize*)
sin over black matter
acrylic on 65x90 canvas, 2019 — painting by Yiğit Özen (decentralize*)
the assassination of the crow
acrylic on 65x90 canvas, 2019 — painting by Yiğit Özen (decentralize*)
despite transgression
acrylic on 100x160 gray carton, 2019 — painting by Yiğit Özen (decentralize*)
ciao capo, sono squalo
acrylic on 65x90 canvas, 2020 — painting by Yiğit Özen (decentralize*)
cellular spleens
acrylic on 100x120 canvas, 2020 — painting by Yiğit Özen (decentralize*)
cute but unemployed cartoon figure
acrylic on 65x90 canvas, 2020 — painting by Yiğit Özen (decentralize*)
the family dinner after a night in jaïl
acrylic on 65x90 canvas, 2020 — painting by Yiğit Özen (decentralize*)
duality of the angelic summarization
acrylic on 65x90 canvas, 2019 — painting by Yiğit Özen (decentralize*)
victim psycho-logique II : the peachy pharaoh connects with the chair
acrylic on 65x90 canvas, 2019 — painting by Yiğit Özen (decentralize*)
guarding holy mountains from malice
acrylic on 65x90 canvas, 2019 — painting by Yiğit Özen (decentralize*)
good people helping bad ones (that’s why they’re bad too)
acrylic on 70x100 black paper, 2019 — painting by Yiğit Özen (decentralize*)
amor cathedra
acrylic on 70x100 black paper, 2019 — painting by Yiğit Özen (decentralize*)
burningman fast
acrylic on 70x100 black paper, 2019 — painting by Yiğit Özen (decentralize*)
il sbagliato di rompipalle
acrylic on 65x90 canvas, 2019 — painting by Yiğit Özen (decentralize*)
morbid forebodings triggered by childish landscape
acrylic on 73x80 grey carton, 2019 — painting by Yiğit Özen (decentralize*)
wings of abyss
acrylic on 65x90 canvas, 2019 — painting by Yiğit Özen (decentralize*)
caprocorn sister: war, plague, earthquake
acrylic on 65x90 canvas, 2020 — painting by Yiğit Özen (decentralize*)
baby rights 101
acrylic on 80x100 canvas, 2020 — painting by Yiğit Özen (decentralize*)
see u in the other side
acrylic on A2 paper, 2019 — painting by Yiğit Özen (decentralize*)
society screwing balance
acrylic on A2 paper, 2019 — painting by Yiğit Özen (decentralize*)
When the Darkness surrounds, be among those who burn the Great Fire
acrylic on 65x90 canvas, 2020 — painting by Yiğit Özen (decentralize*)
viperella
acrylic on 50x70 canvas, 2020 — painting by Yiğit Özen (decentralize*)
How to materialize your loneliness by using an animal in somewhere concrete or technologic
acrylic on 65x90 canvas, 2019 — painting by Yiğit Özen (decentralize*)
Century of 0 & 1 / Transhumanism
acrylic on 65x90 canvas, 2019 — painting by Yiğit Özen (decentralize*)
remixed execution of lucid drowning
acrylic on 65x90 canvas, 2019 — painting by Yiğit Özen (decentralize*)
bacchus 2
acrylic on A2 paper, 2020 — painting by Yiğit Özen (decentralize*)
The On-Top Ruler
acrylic on A3 thick paper, 2020 — painting by Yiğit Özen (decentralize*)
two woman figures sitting at the back of the canvas
charcoal on back of 65x90 canvas, 2019 — painting by Yiğit Özen (decentralize*)
Contact: Instagram @yjgjf · x@yigitozen.xyz