EGEMEN DEMIRCI

For his first institutional solo presentation in Germany, Egemen Demirci brings with TEXT MATERIAL together a mix of old and new works shown for the first time. The works presented all include a common process that deals with display and installation, both on an artistic and an institutional level. The older works goes through a re-materialization by either a method of abstraction of the elements and texts used in the work or by attaching other elements that alter the performative aspect of text as artwork, underlining the tension between meaning, language, material and space. The single video work also goes through a change in the medium, from digital to analog pointing at the self -index / self -archival nature present in the re-materialization of the artworks as well as the re-purposing of the display spaces in the institution as places to show artwork.

Egemen Demirci (1983) was born in Izmir. In the last decade he shifted his focus in artistic production to the use of text in art works, challenging notions of authorship and identity in postconceptual contemporary institutional settings, replacing them with proposals of alternative modalities of universality and futurity. A major part of his practice includes public art works, in which he explores the boundaries of text use in public space and its potential to the spatial transformations, as well as ambiguity and contradiction created through his installations. He problematizes the notion of access in public space and often confronts the viewer with the notion of stranger within.