About the work

Being sincere yet skeptical… constructing a bridge and then burning it, reconstructing the bridge… renaming it… protecting it from representation and perpetually pushing it towards the realm of movement. I think contemplating all these within a conceptual framework paves the way for resistance so the sentence can hang up without closure. Besides, living in a country like Turkey, where politics is essential to daily life, always keeps me alert.

Date and country of birth

1956, TR

Career Highlights

Venice Biennial Turkish Pavilion (2019); Who’s Inside You? at Istanbul Modern Museum, Turkey (2016); Runaway Girls, The Drawing Center New York, USA (2015); Broken Manifestos, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France (2011); Harem, Art in the Auditorium in Whitechapel Gallery London, UK (2009); Liverpool Biennial (2018); Gwangju Biennial (2018); the 13th Istanbul Biennial (2013). Recently international group exhibitions include: Hand Drawn, Action Packed, Hayward Gallery touring exhibition in the UK; Punk Orientalism, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Albert St. Regina, Canada.