CLOSER
OPENING EVENT
7 AUGUST 2015
ARTIST IN RESIDENCY @BACKLANEWEST
9 BACK LANE WEST, REDRUTH, CORNWALL
6:30 - 9:00
ILKER CINAREL
Ilker Cinarel’s work explores the politics that surround the family through the indescribably personal prism of his own childhood tensions where hyper-macho pop culture spilled over into reality. Ilker is still trying to reconcile where he belongs within this masculine dominated culture and context. Questioning the place of intimacy and humour within an overtly masculine context, Ilker playfully makes visible the structures which contain societal stereotypes.
Cinarel’s investigative processes involve both aestheticizing and politicizing his personal experiences and relationship with his surroundings, raising questions that concern cultural identity and the social and political environment that he lives in. In particular, themes around men and masculinity.
The residency at Back Lane West gives Ilker the opportunity to explore the title of his latest works 'Closer'. He is exploring how he can become closer to his father, working with his father's self-appointed ultra ego of the cowboy. Through sexualising this persona he makes empathetic links with his otherwise confusing memories of childhood. He asks the question “did you have a cowboy daddy? ....” and how can you become closer to cowboy?
Cinarel’s investigative processes involve both aestheticizing and politicizing his personal experiences and relationship with his surroundings, raising questions that concern cultural identity and the social and political environment that he lives in. In particular, themes around men and masculinity.
The residency at Back Lane West gives Ilker the opportunity to explore the title of his latest works 'Closer'. He is exploring how he can become closer to his father, working with his father's self-appointed ultra ego of the cowboy. Through sexualising this persona he makes empathetic links with his otherwise confusing memories of childhood. He asks the question “did you have a cowboy daddy? ....” and how can you become closer to cowboy?
More information: http://backlanewest.org
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