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    Demirel ali mahmut the pier video ahmet ogut contemporary art

Ali M. Demirel

The Pier, 2015

Video, Full HD, 17'

Edition 2/5 + 1 AP

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The Pier is the first video of Demirel’s ADA/ISLE trilogy where he has studied abandoned architectural structures. It was commissioned by TodaysArt Festival in the Netherlands and shot at the Scheveningen Pier in Den Haag. Demirel worked with the renown Norwegian ambient music composer Biosphere for the soundtrack.

«In The Pier, Ali M. Demirel’s engagement with the site is decidedly poetic with an awareness of different cycles of time where constructed landscape unfolds in unforeseen ways in dialogue with nature. His slow, emphatetic gaze at a deserted former pleasure pier invites the viewer to contemplate on different lifespans, where an insect’s frantic existence of a couple of weeks is juxtaposed against centuries of unchanging waves.» Dr. Elif Kendir B.

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You could say that I think like a poet, design like an architect, and execute like an engineer.

Ali M. Demirel