Cin: Bir insanın, bir eşyanın, bir kentin v.b. alın yazısını çizdiğine, ya da ona bir süre hükmettiğine inanılan, çoğunlukla göze görünmez iyi veya kötü yaratık.
Cin düğünü: Çoğunlukla geceleri kırsal alanlarda gerçekleştiğine ve oradan geçenlerin müziğin cazibesine kapılıp cinlerin kontrolünde sabaha kadar kendinden geçerek oynadığına inanılan batıl eğlenceler.
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Jinn: A mostly invisible creature believed to have drawn the fate of a person, an object, a city, etc., or believed to have ruled over them for a period, usually a good or evil entity.
Jinn wedding: Superstitious festivities believed to take place mostly at night in rural areas, where those passing by are believed to be drawn by the allure of music and dance under the control of jinns until dawn, losing themselves in the process.
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INSTALLATIONS
Sinem Başar
fishing net, found water pipes, spray color
Coşkun Demirok
LED-advertising tableau, mural
Fatih Karatekin
digitally converted found film material, wall projection/monitors
Yaman Zencirci
sound works, digital audio and visual recordings, performances
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Sinem Başar, born in Istanbul, completed her undergraduate studies at Sabancı University Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design. Mundane, everyday, coincidental moments and places, the usual oddities in urban space are the biggest sources of inspiration for her works. Although found objects are her main materials, she also works with mediums such as photographs, drawings, paintings, sound and video.
Coşkun Demirok was born in Ankara and has been living in Düsseldorf since 1971. He received his architectural education in the same city.
From 1999 to 2017, he was one of the partners of the "DGM
Architekten" office in Krefeld. In addition to architecture, he has continuously maintained his identity as an artist. Düsseldorf, where he realized a series of joint projects with Turkish artists. In recent years, with the reestablishment of his connection to Ankara, he has created "garage" as his workspace. In recent years, his areas of interest have expanded to include not only plastic arts but also
text collages, performance, installation, and acoustic art.
Fatih Karatekin received his undergraduate degree from the Faculty of Communication at Ankara University, Radio, Television, and Cinema Department. He has been working on archives and found footage films since 2014. He creates video art works as a result of manipulating materials such as Betamax, 8mm, and 16mm films, and he builds his archive on subjects such as illness, death, etc.
Yaman Zencirci, born in Ankara, he completed his double bass undergraduate studies at the Rotterdam Conservatory and his master's degree at the Utrecht Conservatory. After a long period of work in various fields such as academia, orchestral musicianship, and jazz, he is now diving into electronic sounds.