Sefer Memişoğlu (1977, Istanbul) works on aesthetics of photography, sound, film and drawings. Memişoğlu’s art practice is received as an attitude of personal experience that has been shaped through working with various media, which are interrelated with each other. The ‘time’ and process of his production is defined by the means of expression and relational imagery at stake. The imagination functions as a tool of speech act that has been influenced by that very practice of production. Hence, the image that gets embodied as an object, describes a knowledge-object that desires to communicate through information sourcing from complex concepts. Instead of contextualizing direct speech on politics, Memişoğlu’s practice -keeping the question of through applying which rules does art as a phenomenon become political, in mind- to attain to be ‘as itself within itself’ aims to point out the fourth dimension of reality, which does not have a visuality. For those reasons, in his every new attempt of expression, of finding his own stance he requires to get involved with the sphere of video and film.
Selected group exhibitions and screenings include be mobile in artists’s film international, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2012; immobility (creative politics), DEPO, Istanbul, 2011; be mobile in immobility (the materialized memory), Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, 2011; Itinéraires, Maison des Arts Georges Pompidou, Cajarc, 2010; Vision in New York City, Macy Art Gallery, NY, 2009; OpenStudio, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, 2008; Truths&Mirages, Shipka 6, Sofia, 2008; Dis—Ease, Bank Gallery, Durban, 2008; Candid Stories, Insa Art Space of Arts Council, Seoul, 2008; The Country, Not the Bird, Art in General, NY, 2008; Hier sein Dort sein Auswarts, Institut für Auslands, Berlin, 2008; Air Pocked, Galerist, Istanbul, 2007; Eurohope 1153, Villa Manin Centro d’arte Contemporanea, Venice, 2006; Guardami: Percezione del Video/Look at Me: Video Perceptions’/Palazzo della Centro Contemporanea, Siena, 2006; 9th International Istanbul Biennial-Freekick Exhibition, Istanbul, 2005; I am too sad to kill you, Proje 4L, Istanbul, 2003; Under the Beach: Pavement, Proje 4L, istanbul, 2002. Selected video screenings include The Filmic Conventions-Direction Code, FormContent, London, 2009; 38th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, 2009; Moment of Agency, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, 2009; 34th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, 2006.
Between 2006 – 2008 he was a resident at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, in 2009 he was a resident at Viafarini-in-Residence in Milan.