PRIZMASPACE- Ozan Adam

Couple of weeks ago I went to an exhibition. The artist had put together his lastest works where he talked about how life is destructive and productive. He talks about how the city changes over time due to political and cultural differences. 

Inspired by Foucault’s philosophical approaches on Rene Magritte’s well known painting, the second part of the exhibition, entitled ‘It is not a pipe’, makes use of digital, analog video and film formats while focusing on the perception of process, product and time. As the title’s Turkish translation “Boru Değil” also makes a reference to the slang expression meaning ‘’the work is not easy’’, the exhibition concentrates on both definitions and symbolisms while focusing on the process of creating meaning and the relation of the signifier to the signified. Highlighting the difficulties of video art, installation, art and film creation, the artist also creates an allusion to pipe lines, social, political and economic connections and the communication networks by making use of the word ‘pipe’s double meaning in Turkish.

Ozan Adam was born in 1976 in Ankara, Turkey. He studied art and cinema in New York, worked in film production, advertising, commercials, media, stage construction and design industries. His body of diverse artwork, which consists of text, design, illustration, painting, sculpture, animation, film, video and installation, has been exhibited in solo and collective exhibitions around the world. He has been teaching film, video production and experimental cinema courses at universities and institutions since 2001. His film “Zymotic Amaurosis” was awarded with the Special Jury Award in the 14th International Ankara Film Festival (2002) and “The Two Names of A Testimony About The Execution of A Happening and A Suitcase Full of Broken Records“ was awarded as the Best Experimental Film in the 17th International Ankara Film Festival (2006). Many of his films and his artworks have been selected and screened by international festivals, galleries and museums.

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Launched in September 2014, Istanbul’s new cinematic project space, PRIZMASPACE will host filmmaker and contemporary artist Ozan Adam for its second director exhibition program, PRIZMA SCREENING #2. Having been selected to Istanbul Film Festival’s New Turkish Cinema selection in 2014 with his latest feature film “For The Blinds”, Ozan Adam will showcase his latest feature film, his award-winning short films, video works and installations between 5 – 26 March 2015 at PRIZMASPACE.



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