Cemile Kaptan

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Apr 09

Hotel Afrika


Hotel Afrika, 2009, photo installation
Rotte Metropolitane, Tools for Revolution or just for Sale, Villa Romana, Florence -Italy

Jarbel, Cheikh, Ndaraw, Materassi, Sar, Papà, Thiaw Modou, Tallà and Sillah Sehr are Senegalese people without permissions of stay in Italy, who are trying to earn €200-300 a month to send home...
I've hid their photos in the gallery building with the little information they gave me about their lives.
Nobody saw them.

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14
Mar 08

Hikmet, “il turco”

Hikmet, "il turco", 2007, video-art, 8’18”
Networking Toscana 2007 “Gecekondu – artistic practices in conflict places”, Florence – Italy;
Networking Toscana 2007 “Integration and Conflict”, workshop and exhibitionwith The Yes Men, Florence – Italy

Hikmet is a Turk that I have found in Italy, who lives on the street.
He talks to me while he is lying on the street…

It has been 22 years that he is there.
He had 3 shops.
Carpet shops.
Italy owes him.
Italy has to pay.
He has many friends around.
He can protect me.
He’s from Cappadocia.
He misses.
He’s weak now.
He wants to return strong.

Hikmet was found dead one week after this film was shot, very close to the place I live…


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14
Mar 08

appraisal to insanity

“appraisal to insanity”, 2006, 5 piece video installation

Appraisal to insanity… doesn’t actually know what it is appraising or what is insanity.
They are recordings of the people whom I found and followed in Italy, who had given up.

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14
Mar 08

hard on

“hard on”, 2008, photograph


hard on:

1- (kaba argo) penis sertleşmesi
2- dikilme
3- kalkma

to be hard on somebody: birine acımasızca davranmak

to ride hard on something: bir şeyi kontrol etmek


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14
Mar 08

lucertole / kertenkele

“lucertole” / “ kertenkele”, 2007, video-meeting and photos
Networking Toscana 2007 “Integration and Conflict”, workshop and exhibition with Mario Rizzi, Prato - İtalya


Three young women, one Turkish and two Italian, start talking as they push the record buttons of three different cameras.

The work takes its name from a kind of lizard which can reproduce on its own by changing sex.


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14
Mar 08

the embrace

“the embrace”, 2006, photograph


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4
Feb 07

the visit, 03.05.2004

“the visit 03.05.2004”, video-art, 7’45”
Bilgi’de Sinema – Avrupa Üniversiteleri Sanatsal Video Film Sergisi, İstanbul;
Braunschweig Technische Universität Elementares Formen, Braunschweig, Almanya;
Braunschweig Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Braunschweig, Almanya;
Burg Giebichenstein – Hochschule für Kunst und Design Halle, Almanya;
University of Ulster Faculty of Fine Arts, Belfast, İrlanda

On his deathday, to the place he lies…

I am shooting and watching myself secretly almost like with a hidden camera.
I secretly document an “un-communication”, an alone speech.

Very personal, a bit embarassing…
An unheard dirge, a shrive…

Completely deaf.

(The work is exhibited in a secret corner of the gallery, with the smallest screen possible.)
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4
Feb 07

accompaniment

“accompaniment”, 2004, video-art, 5’00”
Bilgi’de Sinema – Avrupa Üniversiteleri Sanatsal Video Film Sergisi, İstanbul;
Braunschweig Technische Universität Elementares Formen, Braunschweig, Almanya;
Braunschweig Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Braunschweig, Almanya;
Burg Giebichenstein – Hochschule für Kunst und Design Halle, Almanya;
University of Ulster Faculty of Fine Arts, Belfast, İrlanda


The flow of a serum bottle… An unhealthy mode of waiting and watching…

In contrast to other videos, nothing changes here.
Neither the images, nor the sounds…

It’s only a serum bottle in a fixed shot, its shadow in the dim light, and the air bubbles inside…
As a sign of life…
As a sign that the liquid still goes to through the vein.
As a sign that the owner of the vein is still alive.

An insomniac, hopeless, meaningless, empty waiting…

(The place where the video is exhibited is regularly cleaned with a special antiseptic substance so that it reminds a hospital smell)
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4
Feb 07

220 days

“220 days”, 2004, installation

The used blister covers of the Cipram form a paralel line to the ground on a white wall…

The title of the work is determined according to the number of the Cipram pills used.

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Feb 07

I solved a puzzle when he died

“I solved a puzzle when he died”, 2004, photograph or "readymade"

The work is the puzzle I have solved on the week I lost my father.

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