Memory of Water
A series about trace, disappearance and the way movement becomes image.
YUSUF ŞEN · EBRU · PAINTING · MOVING IMAGE
Water remembers.
An evolving artistic world where water, pigment, memory and time meet.
00:00:00living surface · time is part of the work
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.
2012B.A., Radio, Television and Cinema · Mersin University
2013–2019Postgraduate / Master-programme study in Painting · Mersin University Institute of Fine Arts
2017–2018Erasmus+ Art exchange · Universität Osnabrück · 34 ECTS
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.— Water Remembers / Suyun Hafızası
Water Tulip
The tulip appears not as ornament, but as a form emerging, dissolving and returning through water.
The Answer of Water
A wider field connecting ebru, film and the memory of materials.
03 / WORKS
The Water’s Response · 2026
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.
YUSUF ŞEN · 2026
Art is not an archive of the past. It is a surface that keeps changing.
For exhibitions, collaborations and further context, the selected portfolio and moving-image work provide the current public entry points.