About Artist Defne Samman is an artist based in Istanbul, Turkey. She graduated from the Ceramic & Glass Department at MimarSinan Fine Art university. She designs and creates tablewares for chefs and art works, objects for architectural projects.Searching for the possibilities of all kind of materials from nature to industrial products. She believes that the human condition in its complexity can only be tracked and communicated through that kind of investigation. Earth itself, being the sole generator of all those materials, has always been the primary medium for Samman. Even so, she searches for the possibilities of all kind of materials from nature to industrial products, believing in that the human condition in its subtle complexity can only be tracked and communicated through that kind of investigation. She endeavors to place the dialogues of disappearance, re-finding and transformation in every piece she products.
