1/31/2024 0 Comments Affect is flat![]() Issues of social injustice, resistance and politics of survival are raised not through the artist's observation as an outsider, but from close range a perspective precisely constructed by the practices of life. While the artist builds his work with the retrieved images of the cultural memory, he poetically includes his own subjectivity to all these captivities. Deriving from Turkey's cultural history, the exhibition consists of a series of ironic and upfront constructions, focusing on a research of local and social memory. Dere constantly feeds his work in this way in their reckoning with and creating reality. For the artist, a whole is travelling in time composed of small episodes. In his own words, Dere likes to collect "invisible stories" while creating his works. ![]() ![]() Also, he create objects based upon the social memory and senses and work on video. Dere use objects, photos, charcoal patterns and object installations in order to create a personal archive (narrative) in a sense. In terms of form, Dere's generally produce installations through which he can reach the whole from smaller parts. The conceptual framework of Dere's early works exists in a political area and deals with the socio-political history of Turkey, its multi-culturalism, identity and creating multi-vocality in terms of belonging and cultural democratization. The language that the artist creates in his work exists in an area of many (sociological-psychological) layers that touch one another. He completed his MA in the same faculty and now studying his PhD in Faculty of Arts and Design, Painting Department at Sakarya University. He graduated from Faculty of Fine Arts, Painting Department at Dokuz Eylül University. ![]()
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