I AM THE INTERNET
Sep 26, 2025, 12:00 AM
Oct 2, 2025, 12:00 AM
In her digital drawing series 'I AM THE INTERNET', Syntia aims to highlight the intimacy that the Internet can capture when used as a form of expression and communication, utilizing the meme visual format.
Memes, which essentially express opinions on a subject or convey emotions while being (generally) humorous, have gradually taken over the Internet entirely and gained increasingly multi-layered and complex narratives in this process. In these times when we allocate less and less time to understand or 'feel' artworks, our desire to experience the euphoria created by art in the fastest way possible has led to the emergence of more rapidly 'consumable' art forms, facilitating the intersection of memes and art.
As a Gen Z artist, Syntia questions the values of painting while using representations of a digital collective mind and specifically chooses herself as the subject 'artist'. The series sometimes conveys the superficiality of the 'producer's' unusual problems, sometimes tries to make the viewer question the reasons for rebellions they are unaware of, and sometimes simply says things on her behalf that she cannot express in daily life. The uniqueness of being a visible queer person in Istanbul transforms into overly sharing sentences in the artist's seemingly simple thought processes, while gaining a documentary quality in the eyes of the 'outside world'.