Erkan Ozgen

still from The Road to Tate Modern

Images that I have been struggling to fix in the frame of my psyche, my toil of maintaining the tracks that make me bleed in my brain and ego and metaphors that cause me to perceive their own gravity in my photo or video works being reflected by the language of art; they all emerge as an interference of an individual coming from an oppressed land and speaking in the language of art, who is laboring hard in order to go beyond the prohibitions, or at least to open a crevice in the screen of prohibitions and constraints…

Strangers with Angelic Faces

Video stills