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Who is Şahabettin Yıldırım? (1989 – Silifke / Mersin)Education; 2012 — Çukurova University, Faculty of Education, Bachelor’s Degree in Painting 2007 — Adana Fine Arts High School, Painting DepartmentProfessional Experience; 2012 – Present Painting Teacher in schools affiliated with the Ministry of National Education. Continues his artistic production.Artistic Perspective; For me, art is more a way of expressing awareness than an aesthetic result. The tension between order and chaos, construction and dissolution, control and chance is at the center of my production. Geometric fragments, structures, systems, and repeating forms are consciously used in my works; however, this order is never maintained. It is left to the nature of time, intervention, and material. Because reality never remains perfect. The wear, rust, decay, textures, and layers on the surface are not a “deterioration”; they are the natural process of existence. For me, time is transformation itself. Every structure carries within it its own destruction, and every destruction is the ground for a new creation. My art aims to make visible the contradiction between humanity’s desire to create and the universe’s law of dissolution. It invites the viewer not to ready-made meanings, but into uncertainty. Because meaning is as fleeting as order; as vibrant as chaos. I don’t paint; I record the trace of time.Awards: - 2010 — Kahramanmaraş University Faculty of Fine Arts Painting Competition, Exhibition - 2018 — Adana Teachers' Painting Competition, Adana Provincial First Place - 2019 — Adana Teachers' Painting Competition, Adana Provincial First Place - 2021 — Adana Teachers' Painting Competition, Adana Provincial Third Place - 2022 — International "From Malatya to Melita" Mail Art Competition, Second Place - 2024 — Republic of Turkey 100th Anniversary National Painting Competition, Honorable Mention Award - 2025 — İnönü University 50th Anniversary National Painting Competition, Exhibition - 2025 — Republic of Turkey Ministry of Culture and Tourism Şefik Bursalı National Painting Competition, Achievement Award - 2025 — Republic of Turkey Ministry of Culture and Tourism 77th State Painting and Sculpture Competition, ExhibitionSelected Exhibitions; - 2010 — Kahramanmaraş University Faculty of Fine Arts Painting Competition Exhibition - 2020 — Ceyhan District Governorship, Painting Exhibition within the scope of July 15 Events - 2024 — “A Puduhepa in Çukurova” Painting Exhibition, Adana - 2024 — Minipaint Painting Exhibition, Mersin - 2025 — İnönü University 50th Anniversary National Painting Competition Exhibition - 2025 — “Cappadocia in the Land of Beautiful Horses” Exhibition - 2025 — Adana Contemporary Art Fair - 2025 — Art 24K Painting Exhibition, Adana - 2025 — Minipaint Painting Exhibition, Mersin - 2025 — “Contemporary Witnesses of Baroque Light” Exhibition, Adana