Portfolio
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This portfolio showcases Demir’s work from 2017 to 2024. To explore more, just click “next page” and keep discovering.
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Güneş Cinema
Güneş Cinema, 2021 Art Intervention Diren Demir // Located on Kürkçübaşı Külhani Street in Aksaray, Güneş Cinema had been publicly screening erotic films from the very opening date. The seats of Güneş Cinema had been used by gay men as a place for sex work and cruising. As a consequence of the raid on September…
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Stage Dust Archive
Stage Dust Archive, 2021 Video Performance & Installation Diren Demir // In the process of “preventing the pandemic”, each administration takes different actionsaccording to its own economic power and socio-cultural structure, but each unites with onegoal: to produce new docile bodies. Theater stages, which were ignored because they could not provide a significant power to…
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Prayer
Prayer, 2021 Performance & Installation Diren Demir // The artist performs prayer as a reaction to the radical Islamic regime rising in their country. A heavy stone, which does not allow Diren to put their forehead on the ground throughout this performance, is tied to their hair. On an individual level, this heavy stone represents…
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Beyond The Wall
Beyond The Wall, 2020 Sound Installation Diren Demir // The sound installation created by artist Diren Demir through an open call started in 2020 with the pandemic, different people in different houses recorded sounds coming from “beyond the walls” in their living spaces all over the world. Installation collects the traces of life reflected on…
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Service
Service, 2020 Live Performance for Performistanbul Diren Demir The patriarchal system which formed within our society and evolved in our home requires us to give a domestic service. The performance “Service” draws a dramatic portrait of the “groundless” / “fragile” pleasure behind the “Father” figure who has been presenting and adopting to male dominated power…
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Horizontal Execution
Horizontal Execution, 2020 Video Performance Diren Demir In Horizontal Execution, Diren Demir moves steadily toward a screen until the rope around their neck fixes the body in place. The moment of suspension becomes a study of how agency is narrowed by forces that appear voluntary yet operate as constraint. The work reflects on the tension…
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