Artes Mundi - Ergin Çavuşoğlu
Ergin Çavuşoğlu
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Ergin Çavuşoğlu’s film and video installations are meditations on the ever shifting aspects of today’s globalised society. Travel, migration, mobility, together with old and new orders or notions of east and west – are explored, hinting at how we are all caught up in the bigger issues of today. ‘The contradictions, losses and latent tensions of globalization and migration are the thematic current of Çavuşoğlu’s work.’ (Michael Hübl) Raised in Bulgaria as part of a Turkish minority and now based in London, he draws on his own experiences and intends his work to be ‘poetic representations, exposing the boundaries of urban life that lie between the private and public domains.’ He is also interested to ask questions ‘about the artistic image and its capacity to observe socio-cultural landscapes and human geographies.

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Quintet Without Borders (2007)
A collaboration with Konstantin Bojanov
Five channel video installation - 21mins
Installation view - Haunch of Venison - Zurich 2007
© Jon Etter