When We Woke, Our Bodies Were Not Our Own
Oil on canvas, 2025
120 × 100 cm · 47.2 × 39.4 in
Whoever Resembles Whom Walks That Way, 2024
Kim Kime Benzerse O Taraftan Yürür
MediumAcrylic and oil on canvas
Dimensions130 × 120 cm · 51.2 × 47.2 in
EditionUnique
SignatureÖn yüzde imzalı
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The absurd squeeze of modern people between their search for comfort and the dangers closing in. Ali Demirci brings the calm of a swimming pool together with the uncanniness of sharks and rats in the same frame.
About the work
Identities hidden behind masks offer a subtle critique of herd psychology and social imitation, in the spirit of the Turkish saying that gives the work its title, a cousin of “birds of a feather flock together”. Built with the depth of oil and the vividness of acrylic, this surreal composition is an uncanny party scene that makes the viewer laugh and feel uneasy at the same time.
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