Lal Batman creates multilayered art pieces by integrating diverse disciplines such as video art, digital manipulation, oil painting, drawing, and sculpture. In her works, she explores the boundaries of courage and fear, giving a tangible weight to abstract memories and rendering them permanent. While she operates with a cinematographic sensibility, she avoids linear narratives, instead crafting compositions centered on a veiled sense of unease. The timeless and placeless quality of her works is reinforced through her use of various media.
Batman develops an interdisciplinary artistic language by bridging digital and plastic mediums. She merges digital illustrations and manipulations with physical materials, enriching these creations with additional layers such as video art and sound design. The resulting works are transformed into installations that establish a dialogue with their surroundings, enhancing the audience’s engagement. Experimentation and discovery lie at the heart of her creative process. Drawing inspiration from both the aesthetic sensibilities of past eras and the iconography of contemporary digital culture, she constructs a visual language that transcends temporal and cultural boundaries.
Batman examines the impact of digital culture on everyday life, addressing the erotic dimensions of desires such as surveillance, exhibitionism, and voyeurism. By deforming digital tools, she develops her own methodology, aiming to carve out a space beyond absolute values like shame, falsehood, beauty, or ugliness. Her works resist fixed narratives, inviting viewers to become active participants in the interpretive process. This dialogue offers a new reading situated at the intersection of social and individual experiences.
Born in 2001 in Bursa, Lal Batman studied at Zeki Müren Fine Arts High School before pursuing a degree in Plastic and Fine Arts at Yeditepe University. She has participated in numerous curatorial projects, fairs, and workshops across Europe, Asia, and South America. At Zonamaco 2023, her solo booth was recognized by Art News as one of the top ten booths of the fair. Batman participated in the New Lands exhibition, curated by Necmi Sönmez, at Arkas Art. Her selected solo exhibitions include Cherry On Top, Bodrum, Turkey (2024), Positions, Berlin, Germany (2024), The Floor is Lava, Düsseldorf, Germany (2023) and Entaracte, Belgrade, Serbia (2022).
Lal Batman lives and works in Istanbul, Türkiye.