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Born in Istanbul in 1977, Emre Hüner lives and works in Istanbul. He now lives and works in Amsterdam as resident at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten.
To create his animations Hüner collects hundreds of objects in
personal encyclopaedias of his own drawings. He then brings these
images together to create imaginary worlds, such as that of
"Panoptikon", which combines Ottoman-era miniature aesthetic with
scientific representations of invention and war. While "Panoptikon"
hints at a dystopian future for society in this region and beyond,
a more recent work, "Boumont", which is filmed on hand-held camera,
focuses specifically on Istanbul and the story of a lone man
wondering the inner city's already deserted and decaying industrial
areas.
Hüner's approach to cataloguing the world around him is unlike
other archiving practices, as it is not about noting key
happenings, events and images (whether real or factitious), but
rather about creating the possibility for these moments to be
imagined. While he touches on the problematic political
relationships of the region, he does so through references to
independent layers of history that he converges to present
mythical, yet recognizable events. A key theme in Hüner's work is
the effect of excessive consumption, dense population growth and
shifting customs and beliefs. To describe a world that is being
planned and progressed too rapidly, Hüner has filmed forgotten
areas of Istanbul, previously unexplored by artists in preference
of sites of development. While Istanbul's rash of new high-rise
housing and gated communities may speak of a certain prescribed
future, one that craves documentation and theory-based response, it
is the decaying inner city industrial zones and the environments of
Hüner's animations that allow one to imagine possible futures and
the potential for change.
Hüner's work "Panoptikon" is included in the Bidoun Programme
screened during the 2008 Dubai Art Fair. Hüner’s solo
exhibitions in 2010 include Adverse Stability, Extra City,
Antwerp; The New Horizon, Stroom, Den Haag. Hüner’s
participation in group exhibitions has included in 2010
Diversity, CCA Warsaw, Warsaw; The Future of
Tradition, Haus der Kunst, Munich; Living in
Evolution, Busan Biennial, South Korea and Cross
Section, Flux/S, Eindhoven. Hüner lastly also participated to
The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art,
Gallery of Modern Art of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia (2009),
The Generetional : Younger then Jesus, New Museum, New
York, USA (2009) , at Manifesta 7 – The Rest of Now, South
Tyrol Italy (2008). In 2007 Hüner participated in the 10th
International Istanbul Biennial and in Fairytale at
TICA in Tirana, Albania. In 2006 his work was included in TORINO e
MILANO INCONTRANO..L’ARTE, a permanent public work contest
organised by Artegiovane and the Chamber of Commerce of Milan,
Milano, Italy; VIDEOARTE YEARBOOK 2006, curated by Renato Barilli,
C.di Santa Cristina, Bologna, Italy; MIGRÈ, En Parallele, Centre
Culturel Français de Milan, curated by Katia Anguelova and
Alessandra Poggianti, Milan, Italy; VIDEO INVITATIONAL #2, curated
by Milovan Farronato with collaboration of Els van Odijk, Via
Farini, Milan, Italy.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art