Artist Announcement I Didem Erk

Eylül 2016

x-ist is pleased to announce that young artist Didem Erk joined the gallery in the new season.

Born in Istanbul in 1986, Didem Erk studied in the Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design department at the Sabancı University and graduated with a master’s degree from the same department.

Using performance, video, installation and text as tools, the artist continues in her works her inquiry into the poetic aspects of the notions of language, memory and border related to space. Scrutinizing the possible defects and fictionalities of memory in relation to the performative aspects of the act of remembrance, the artist has met the audience with her works in many exhibitions in Turkey and abroad up to the present.