İsmet Doğan

Focusing on the concepts of history, culture, tradition and the effects of violence/trauma imposed and appropriated by the westernization-modernization project in his early works, the artist uses dadaist methods such as collage, montage, graffiti and ready-made objects. In the 2000s, he critically addresses the subject of colonialism, with references to art history and cinematographic material changes. Doğan creates an identity with different characters by placing his own image in film frames, and brings an interpretation on the representational systems appropriated by Western visual culture. Mirrors have become a basic working material for the artist since the 1990s, where the viewer reflects, multiplies, encounters his own body as a stranger and functions as a part of the artwork in semi-matt or transparent mirrors and convex and convex mirrors. After graduating from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Marmara University in 1983, he went to Paris with a scholarship from the French Government and returned to Turkey in the 1990s. The artist still lives and produces in Istanbul.