Elmas Deniz - Eluding Humans, 2019 - Spazio Ferdinand Stuflesser, Pontives

Elmas Deniz, Eluding Humans, Still from Video, 2019 ©
Elmas Deniz, Eluding Humans, 2019. Lightboxes, Photographic Prints, Wooden Frames. Variable Dimensions. Courtesy of the Artist. Photo by Tiberio Sorvillo

L’artista turca Elmas Deniz nrescieia l’idea de natura y coche chësta se ebe mudà aldò di sistems de valor desfrënc tla storia dla persona y la ti va do a cie che ie desvalif, a la cultura dl consum y coche l capitalism ebe danejà nosc raport cun la natura . Tres opres cunzetueles che da iede a iede à na materilità desfrënta coche nstalazions, videos o scultures, ti dà l’artista ahta ai mudamënc ecologics tl tëmp dl Antropozen.

Tl video An Illusion of Encuter (2023) mët Deniz adum elemënc dl film speriment el y dl teater per cunté la storia dla spezies a risia de estinzion per gauja dla persona y dl sciaudamënt dla Tiera. I protagonisć dl video ie persunajes furnic sù da tieres y plantes, sciche The Beetle, the Cheliped-man, y The Council of Plants, metan d ant na vision nia antropozëntrica dla vita sun nosc planet. La trëi scatules da lum de Eluding humans (2019), n mostra a Pontives, mostra pultrëc fac cun trapules fotografiches scundudes tl bosch, che vën adurvedes per se de ju cun la usanzes di tieres sal veresc dla nuet. La fotografies nes permët de nes cunfrunté cun tieres che se tën de solit dalonc ala persona, mustran n retrat sluminënt y sul mumënt de si natura salvera de chëla che n sënt che n la possa nia brancë ite. (M.P.) 

ELMAS DENIZ

Elmas Deniz (1981, Bergama, Turkey), lives in Istanbul. Her works investigate the intersections of entanglement between economics and nature. She graduated from Dokuz Eylul University, Department of Painting, and Izmir Anatolian High School of Fine Arts. She took part in the 14th and 16th Istanbul Biennial; Colomboscope, Colombo, Sri Lanka; the 5th Gyumri Biennial in Yerevan. Recent exhibitions include Bilsart, Zilberman, and PILOT in Istanbul; Schloss Museum Moyland, Bedburg-Hau; Sonje Art Center and Boan 1942 Art Space, Seoul; D21Kunstraum, Leipzig; MOCAK, Krakow; Istanbul Museum of Modern Art; Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris; Pera Museum, DEPO and SALT, İstanbul; SECESSION, Vienna. She is the co-founder of K2 Contemporary Art Center in Izmir, Turkey. She was awarded IASPIS Artist Grant, Berlin Goethe-Institut Cultural Grant. Deniz took part in residency at Pistoletto Foundation in Italy; DIVA, Copenhagen; Vassl, Karachi in Pakistan; and at AIWA in Lebanon.

Elmas Deniz - Eluding Humans, 2019 - Spazio Ferdinand Stuflesser, Pontives

Elmas Deniz, Eluding Humans, Still from Video, 2019 ©
Elmas Deniz, Eluding Humans, 2019. Lightboxes, Photographic Prints, Wooden Frames. Variable Dimensions. Courtesy of the Artist. Photo by Tiberio Sorvillo

L’artista turca Elmas Deniz nrescieia l’idea de natura y coche chësta se ebe mudà aldò di sistems de valor desfrënc tla storia dla persona y la ti va do a cie che ie desvalif, a la cultura dl consum y coche l capitalism ebe danejà nosc raport cun la natura . Tres opres cunzetueles che da iede a iede à na materilità desfrënta coche nstalazions, videos o scultures, ti dà l  rtista ahta ai mudamënc ecologics tl tëmp dl Antropozen.

Tl video An Illusion of Encounter (2023) mët Deniz adum elemënc dl film speriment el y dl teater per cunté la storia dla spezies a risia de estinzion per gauja dla persona y dl sciaudamënt dla Tiera. I protagonisć dl video ie persunajes furnic sù da tieres y plantes, sciche The Beetle, the Cheliped-man, y The Council of Plants, metan d ant na vision nia antropozëntrica dla vita sun nosc planet. La trëi scatules da lum de Eluding humans (2019), n mostra a Pontives, mostra pultrëc fac cun trapules fotografiches scundudes tl bosch, che vën adurvedes per se de ju cun la usanzes di tieres sal veresc dla nuet. La fotografies nes permët de nes cunfrunté cun tieres che se tën de solit dalonc ala persona, mustran n retrat sluminënt y sul mumënt de si natura salvera de chëla che n sënt che n la possa nia brancë ite. (M.P.) 

ELMAS DENIZ

Elmas Deniz (1981, Bergama, Turkey), lives in Istanbul. Her works investigate the intersections of entanglement between economics and nature. She graduated from Dokuz Eylul University, Department of Painting, and Izmir Anatolian High School of Fine Arts. She took part in the 14th and 16th Istanbul Biennial; Colomboscope, Colombo, Sri Lanka; the 5th Gyumri Biennial in Yerevan. Recent exhibitions include Bilsart, Zilberman, and PILOT in Istanbul; Schloss Museum Moyland, Bedburg-Hau; Sonje Art Center and Boan 1942 Art Space, Seoul; D21Kunstraum, Leipzig; MOCAK, Krakow; Istanbul Museum of Modern Art; Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris; Pera Museum, DEPO and SALT, İstanbul; SECESSION, Vienna. She is the co-founder of K2 Contemporary Art Center in Izmir, Turkey. She was awarded IASPIS Artist Grant, Berlin Goethe-Institut Cultural Grant. Deniz took part in residency at Pistoletto Foundation in Italy; DIVA, Copenhagen; Vassl, Karachi in Pakistan; and at AIWA in Lebanon.