13. bis 16. Mai 2010 

Sadık Demiröz

Demiroz was born in Balikesir in 1969. He lived in Izmir during his elementary, middle and high school years of education and then graduated from Anadolu University, Fine arts Faculty, Graphic Design in 1995. In the same department he started working as a lecturer. In 1997 he won a fellowship from USA and accomplished his M.F.A. in Photography, in Savannah Collage of Art and Design.

Sadik Demiroz continues to work in his own studio and teaches photography.
He is married and has two children.

Existence

To my understanding, photographic images are a visual collection of the relationships, and associations I have experienced and the connections I have made in the world. Photography can visually express the intangible and cerebral act of complicated thought, both conscious and subconscious. My artistic interest emphasizes the human experience. Layering and integrating unrelated or related things allows me to construct a reality that is intangible but exist in my mind. I use my images to convey feelings of loneliness and isolation. I also try to show the humor or the sadness of the subject.

Photography can be a mirror and reflect life as it is, but I also think that perhaps it is possible to walk, like Alice, through the looking-glass, and find another kind of world which might be more real than reality we know. Like any artist I have my own way of penetrating reality. Photography gave me the opportunity of creating my reality. I have also wanted to create, in a sense, surreal moment which helps  audience to interpret the idea or the message.

I want my work to be more about the story that I intend to tell or that viewers draw out and less about the particular subjects or objects that I use in my work, including their original definition. With this understanding, I try to show through my photographs how I think about reality, reality that exists in my dreams or perhaps, in someone else’s intellectual conversation. By clarifying the difference between the reality we know and the reality I intend to portray, I try to help viewers, by using photographic reality, to discover what they can interpret from my work as their own reality a long with my intentions. In this exhibition, I have tried to document my imaginations by using photography.