İSMET DOĞAN

Istanbul based contemporary artist.

What I am trying to do as an artist is a sort of intervention or modification of the existing visuality. I integrated another critical dimension into my artwork; especially interested on the subject of colonialism I approached a strategy of art historical references and cinematographic material alteration.I undertake a change by integration of my own image into the filmstrip commenting thus on the identification and empathy with movie characters and at the same time on the hegemony of western visual culture. On the other hand the movie material gaines thus a status of an art motif. A mirror has one of the most essential roles as a working material for me. In the half-matt or transparent, convex and concave mirrors the viewer is reflected, multiplied, and confronted with my own body as a stranger and even more, operating as something else, namely as a part of an artwork. I was the "other" artist of the West, and I have always worked in this awareness. I have made hybrid works. Because here was the hybrid. It was a hybrid culture.