Serkan Özkaya “Dear Sir or Madam”

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poster for Serkan Özkaya “Dear Sir or Madam”

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In addition to several new sculptures, the exhibition will also display the letters that the artist has written and continues to write to bourgeois bureaucracies and cultural institutions and curators. Also in the exhibition is Proletarier aller Länder, a compelling installation that deploys an army of little red proles shaped from flexible plastic foam figures across the exhibition gallery’s floor and anchored to it. Viewers are invited to walk on them, but the diminutive laborers spring back despite the trampling, which demonstrates the resilience, collective power and indestructibility of the working classes.

Serkan Özkaya (b. 1973, Istanbul) is a conceptual artist whose works use appropriation and reproduction; they usually operate outside traditional spaces for art. He holds an MFA from Bard College, New York, and a doctorate in German language and literature department from Istanbul University, where he also earned his BA and MA.

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from February 19, 2009 to March 28, 2009

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Serkan Özkaya

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