The Stranger
Freitag, 25. Oktober 2013 - 19:00 Uhr
Mz Baltazar's Laboratory
curated by moment collective
Part I
THE NIGHTWATCH
Three Channel Video Installation, 5’00’’, 2011
by VOLKAN KIZILTUNC (TR)
www.volkankiziltunc.com
Exhibition Opening: Friday, 25.10.2013 | 7p.m.
Mz. Baltazar´s Laboratory | Sechshauserstraße 28 | A – 1150 Wien
2011 – THE NIGHTWATCH
Three Channel Video Installation, 5’00’’, with sound, 2011
“The Nightwatch” is about spaces and people in two cities, Istanbul and Vienna.The captures phenomenons of streets, gateways passages and windows during the night seen in a parallel editing in three channels.In this culturally different cities we also see anonymous people which are unaware of being shot in a planar angle of steady shots in a vouyoristic way. Although they remain anonymous, equal under the lens of the camera, a sense of individual lives and diversity emerges . The camera distilling the flow of everyday life, the movement of people in the city, reflecting on daily reality from an entirely anthropocentric perspective.The spaces that become stage-like backdrops in Nightwatch, they are the same spaces we move through every day, and we suddenly become aware of ourselves: “… so this is what it looks like when I walk through the streets.”
About the Artist
Volkan Kiziltunc was born in Ankara in 1976. After studying archeology in Istanbul University he had studied photography at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University and graduated in 2005.
That year he had choosen to the Young Talents in Turkish Photography Exhibition with his project ‘’In Situ’’ which is organised by Genis Aci Photography Magazine. In 2006 he took part to an international exhibition & book project in Germany, “Last & Lost – Pictures of A Vanishing Europe” which had exhibited in Germany and Austria. As the only Turkish artist, he had represented with 10 photos from the outskirts of Istanbul along with artists from 15 European countries. In 2012 he’d selected to a photography project in Latvia called, ‘Middle Town’’, which was organised by ISSP (International Summer School of Photography)in Latvia. In 2013 he’s selected as ESSL ART AWARD CEE 2013 Turkish Winner also the VIG Special Invitation Winner which is organised by ESSL Contemporary Art Museum Vienna.
Since 2009 he’s been studying MFA in photography and working as a research assistant in Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University ,Department of Photography. He’s doing photography and video projects and living in Istanbul.
http://www.volkankiziltunc.com