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January 13, 2023Zeynep Arınç, Selçuk Artut
Esra Özkan, Bengi Ünsal
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Selçuk Artut (b.1976). His artistic research and production focus on theoretical and practical dimensions of human-technology relations. He holds a Ph.D. in Media and Communications from European Graduate School, Switzerland. Currently, Artut is working as an Assoc. Prof. for the Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design Program at Sabanci University, Istanbul where he mainly teaches Sound and Interaction Courses. He has been releasing several albums as a member of a Post-Rock Avangard music band Replikas since 1998. In 2016, he co-founded the audio-visual performance group RAW together with Alp Tuğan, which produces works through creative coding and live-coding techniques.
I am a lens-based artist living in Istanbul and Paris.
1981- Mardin / Kızıltepe 2007- Faculty of Fine Arts /Ceramic. Mehmet Ali Boran performs an artistic production with materials and media such as video, photography, installation, performance and video-novel. In his first-period works displaying narratives on the crowds, the artist presented the physical/psychological reflexes of masses across the government with an effective visual way as part of the issues like identity and belonging. Later on his artistic production, Boran focused on the problems of militarism, immigration and memory. He began to explore the ecological narratives and he examined closely the positioning format of the new era security system in the place where he lived. In his works Mehmet Ali Boran criticized the discourse of security community created by the control and surveillance mechanisms of the government on territarial borders, city/country settlements and topographic areas. He proposes the whole perusal of the existent instead of the human-oriented perusal of the place, history and memory. Also he develops a jeontological point of view to animal, watercourse, soil, rock, air, plants and cultural relics. Moreover Boran offers a different perspective agaist the people who bring themselves into existence taking inspiration from geographical sciences. In his works with a metonomic perspective, he shows that what happens in local areas is not independent from the gobal dimensions. He attended several exhibitions both national and international. His works were exhibited in London, Helsinki, Paris, Stuttgart and Venice. Also the artist is one of the founders of Mişar Art Contemporaryaet talks.
Balkan Karisman uses different mediums together; he asks hypothetical questions about analog versus virtual, past versus future, real versus surreal perception. He sees every accessible technology as a natural instrument and at the same time a source of inspiration.
The ruins, abandoned building and ancient city motifs, which we often encounter in the works of the artist, who has a detailed work practice, can be read as romantic signs that directly refer to the feelings of common dismay, anxiety and despair that our age has created over generations, rather than being depictions of a place. In these works, reminiscent of a deep sense of loneliness, silence, and contemplation, the objective reality of nature is often reinterpreted in a melancholic way to remind the temporality of life and death. Making use of the technical possibilities of printmaking as well as oil paintings that make up the majority of his repertoire, the artist tries to find a unique balance between '' tradition '' and '' contemporary '' and descend the stairs to the dark corridors of the human soul.
“Language is the fuel of thinking.” Bora says. He is looking for ways to preserve the 'purity' of this fuel as much as possible and reach beyond the 'reality presented to us'. He believes we can only expand the limits of imagination with literature. “A timid elegance is hidden in our existence. We should not be content with the part leaking from the cracks...”
Mert Öztekin (Ankara, 1983), had his recent solo projects exhibited in Öktem Aykut, Eldem Sanat Alanı (Eskişehir) and Kova (Ankara). Since 2009, his works have been shown in group exhibitions at Southard Reid (Condo London), NON, Hafriyat, Tasarım Bakkalı, ArtSümer, Halka and Depo. He also took part in art exhibitions and events with HaZaVuZu: İstanbul. Passion, Joy, Fury MAXXI, National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome (2015); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2013); For Whom is it Too Late Today? – Between Stamp and Mars, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou (2009); Baltic Triennial, Vilnius (2009); Biennale de Lyon (2009); Lokaal01, Antwerp (2008); Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Rotterdam (2008); Kaserne, Basel (2008); Istanbul Biennial (2007).
I aim at presenting new contextual relations and meanings among forms by reintroducing particular shapes in architecture. Therefore, I suggest reconsidering the boundaries of the language in the context of mediums and intercultural means.
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