Deniz works with sculpture, drawing, video, and installation. Their conceptual works are often reconstructions and citations. One of their interests is the tension between materials and immaterial effects (trauma, ineffable experiences, and memories). How could an object (a sculpture) maintain this tension while investigating the relationship between past, violence, and subjectivity?
The film shows a performance in a room that was witness to a historical moment. It served as the conference room for the negotiations that led to the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923, in which Kurdistan was partitioned into four parts. Today the room is a suite in a 4-star hotel in Lausanne. The artist enters the space blindfolded (without having previously seen it) and attempts to oriented herself. Since the performer is deprived of her sight, the spectator’s vision is intensified, creating an opportunity for multiple spaces and levels of reality to be present at the same time.
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Guide
Welcome to T/C Latvia : Latvian pavilion at Venice Biennale
James Lee Byars, 1932–1997
Paik’s Video Study - Nam June Paik Art Center
James Turrell - Aftershock
Hrair Sarkissian: The Other Side of Silence
Bruce Nauman. Neons Corridors Rooms
Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You
Jitish Kallat: Order Of Magnitude
Chun Kwang Young: Times Reimagined
