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The work of Ahmet Öğüt (Diyarbakir, 1981) explores a number of social situations and historical processes which have their origins in the artist’s experience in his native Turkey but can be extrapolated to any other context. By way of drawings, videos, photographs and performance, Öğüt addresses a series of often banal everyday situations that reveal subtle alterations in the way things work. These alterations often invite more complex social and political readings, bringing to light certain power relations and analysing the effectiveness of political action.
Two previous works by Öğüt that also explore this approach were presented in last year’s collective exhibition Pensa Piensa Think at the
CASM. One of these, Somebody Else's Car, showed how an artist’s all but unnoticed action can effect the way we see things. The upcoming exhibition at the
CASM will feature new works, many of them created for Öğüt’s recent exhibition at the Kunsthalle in Basel.