Hatice Tarhangil

After graduating in Architecture in Istanbul, Rana Tarhangil traveled to Spain and settled in Barcelona. She worked as an architect for 17 years in several countries but felt that she had lost her creativity. She started painting, creating sculptures, and making crafts. Additionally, during the pandemic, she took a course in industrial waste management and began collecting waste, conducting recycling workshops, and exhibiting art created from recycled materials. Rana feels “indebted” to nature and wants to contribute to raising awareness among people, not only about recycling plastics but also about the urgent need to stop using them. Her goal is to create an emotional reaction in the viewer, linked to the contradiction between the initial attraction of the beauty of the artwork and the awareness message it conveys, and to make people reflect on environmental, social, and economic sustainability.