Onur Ceritoglu invites for his open studio the artist Aslı Seven. They will offer a reading/performance around the infra, a prefix that brings them together.
Onur Ceritoğlu is an artist and academician trained as an architect in Istanbul. In his installations, he works with found objects and materials that signify heavy urban changes and informalities within them. Asli Seven is a curator and writer based between Istanbul and Paris. Since 2016, she has been a doctoral student at the European School of Visual Arts in France. Her research focuses on the forms of infrastructural violence embodied in the landscape and built environment.
Onur Ceritoglu and Asli Seven both look at the built environment around them, the landscapes and buildings that hide all the pipes, switches and cables, the movement that generates energy, the infrastructures that are socially and spatially constructed, the artistic practice that creates a niche for infra-resistance. Repetition creates energy. The movement in cycles sheds light on these questions: What is behind artistic practices? What is hidden? What is the relationship between art and infrastructure space?
Onur Ceritoglu (Turkey) is in residence at the Cité internationale des arts through the programme of the Foundation for Culture and Art in Istanbul (IKSV).