THE ARTIST
Rehan Miskci is a New York  and Istanbul based visual artist working in photography, video and installation. She is the first place winner of Baxter Street Camera Club of New York’s Annual Competition in 2015. Her work has been exhibited in numerous venues including Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, Fridman Gallery, New York, Kasa Gallery, Istanbul. Miskci is an alumnus of Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2019, and she is the recipient of the Bronx Museum’s Artist in the Marketplace Fellowship in 2019. Miskci was also awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship in Photography in 2019. 

THE RESIDENCY
At BAR, Miskci presented Foto Yeraz (Yeraz means “dream” in Western Armenian), an extension of her quest for new meanings in the tradition of studio photography and its connection to her Armenian identity. Foto Yeraz is a fictitious and vacant photo studio, where figures are absent, but spatial elements, such as large scale backdrops and props, still continue to exist, in fact they convert from serving as objects and start acting as subjects instead. Studio Photography is more than just an accumulation of single photographs of individuals, it’s an area where interpretation relies upon typologies and the multiplication and repetition of backdrops, props, poses and expressions. Foto Yeraz aims to highlight these characteristics through the juxtaposition of real and fictional imagery of studios and their spatial settings.