THE ATELIER
Screening & Artist Talk with Ezgi Akyol
May 26, 2018
DEPO, Istanbul
Protocinema screens The Atelier, 2018, by Hasan Özgür Top at Depo, which premiered in an exhibition at Proyecto AMIL, Lima, and was commissioned by Protocinema with support by SAHA, Istanbul. Filmed in Turkey, The Atelier, investigates processes and effects of nationalism and its increasingly complex relationship with capitalism, as it exists across continents and time.
Following the 26 minute screening, Hasan Özgür Top will talk about his work with
Ezgi Akyol, academician of Political Science, Istanbul University.
HASAN ÖZGÜR TOP’s new commission as supported by SAHA, Istanbul.
Hasan Özgür Top (Ankara, Turkey, 1987). Selected group exhibitions include The Multiplier Effect, Mixer, Istanbul, 2017; Replaced, Rampa, Istanbul; If you can’t go through the door, go through the window, Alt Art Space, Istanbul and 1Sergi, Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Istanbul all in 2016. The Ways We Stand By, Protocinema Emerging Curator Series, Proto-5533, Istanbul; YFD VI, Zilberman Gallery, Istanbul, both in 2015; Borders Orbits, Siemens Sanat, Depo, Istanbul and Connecting the Dots: Workshops, Artist Diaries, Pera Museum, Istanbul, 2014; Prescription, Karşı, Istanbul, 2012; Even My Mum Can Make a Book, Manzara Perspectives, Istanbul, 2011; Two Shadows of ‘The Public’: Screen and Space, Lothringer13, Munich, which traveld to Depo, Istanbul, 2010. In 2012 Top’s videos were screed at That’s How We Do It, Istanbul, B15Occupato, Rome, and Counter Manipulation, NO-TAV Camp,Turin. Top holds an MA at Marmara University, Institute of Fine Arts, Painting, Istanbul, 2015 and his BA, Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Painting, Istanbul, 2014-2008. He lives in Istanbul, Turkey.
Protocinema is an itinerant art organization realizing site-aware exhibitions in different places in the world. Free of ‘brick and mortar’, sites vary to respond both to global concerns and changing conditions on the ground. Protocinema.org
For more information please contact: Mari Spirito, mari@protocinema.org +90 541 468 02 14, or +1917 660 7332.