Ahmet Dogan [FR]

French multimedia artist born in 1979. He lives and works in Strasbourg, where in 2005 he finished Ecole supérieure des arts décoratifs. His works where exhibited in France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Romania.
Ahmet Dogan creates mostly installations and videos. In his work the artist uses everyday objects, such as sugar, butter or phonogram, to which he attributes new meanings and functions. He tries to make the elements of his pieces interact with each other. He’s mainly interested in a relation between destruction and creation. Through his pieces he takes into consideration the political and economical order of the modern world. Treating such serious matters as war or death, Ahmet Dogan applies irony and distance that are typical for him.

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NARRACJE 2011 Work: Missed Shots

Throughout Dolne Miasto the traces of World War II are still visible, among those are several building facades which have been riddled by bullets. Ahmet Dogan highlights them with a phosphoric paint which makes them glow by night. "The idea here consists in emphasizing a past moment from history of the city and the building. Making the traces visible during the night is a manner to accentuate or to remind a part of the past."

curator: Agnieszka Wołodźko
cooperation: Maja Baran

NARRACJE 2011 Location: building (side wall), ul. Łąkowa 35/38