Nezaket Ekici

Veronica Cerrotta

Regina José Galindo

Manuel Macadamia

Alëna Korolëva

Axl Le

Louis-Paul Caron

Kati Kallio

THE CURATORS MILAN

Mrs Luva-Luva

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Eegun

Claudia Larcher

Sofya Skidan

Florencia S.M. Brück

Noémi Büchi

Zhou Tao

Jae Hoon Lee

Brit Bunkley

Liudmila Siewerski

Sara Tirelli

Ana Saut

Jonathan Monaghan

Manel De Aguas

Tanya Akhmetgalieva

Shahar Marcus

Anna Savitskaya

My choice

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But All That Glitters Is Not Gold

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The Gift to Inner Child

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DOORBELL

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Leap of faith

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Cassandra

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One Two Three Four (2008)

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𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐬

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Dissamblage

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A Hundred Varieties of Life

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Pillar of Fire - trailer

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dark proposes a kind of resistance

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Space Rocks

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PISS

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AGRIDISTOPIA

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La Source Ep 1

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Mythological Menagerie - Cerberus

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The Artist in the Machine

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AI Transcendence

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Diving In The Club

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Natural Intelligence

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Prelude for Rational Freshness

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Paranoid mass

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The Offline Feed

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L'addition

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La Tierra no Esconde los Muertos

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Aladdin

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Naples

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Rain - Fire

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Nezaket Ekici
But All That Glitters Is Not Gold
Videoperformance 2014
 

The Video performance shows Ekici confining herself in a golden cage, with 30 golden keys hanging above the cage. She tries to stretch her hand and arm through the bars to grab the nearest key in order to open the door and liberate herself from the cage. What starts like an easy game becomes oppressing as time passes by. She barely moves her arms and hardly reaches out through the grid. Her breathing gets heavier with each attempt; yet, she tries her luck with one key after the other until she finds the right one to escape her self-chosen destiny. Since the ancient times, the golden cage has been one of the symbols of self-inflicted confinement and imprisonment. Similarly, cities – and entire countries as well – can be compared to a golden cage. The golden cage in this performance is used to express the feelings of one’s confinement and suppression.

Ekici developed this work during her stay in the Culture Academy Villa Tarabya, Istanbul, within her residence scholarship, between December 2013 and September 2014.





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Nezaket Ekici 
But all that glitters is not gold 
Videoperformance 2014
Duration oft he Video: 08:50 min,
Medium: HD 16:9 ,Mp4, Colour sound,
Filmed at Culture Academy Tarabya Istanbul 
Camera: Güvenç Özgür, Yunus Emre Aydın 
Editing: Branka Pavlovic 
Sound: Janja Loncar 
Techniciens: Artin Ahoron, Volkan Kaplan, Ali Güvenç Atılgan, 
Costume Design: Nezaket Ekici 
Dresscutter: Belgü Moda Evi 
Equipment: Golden Cage , 30 golden keys, 30 nylon treads, white pedestal, costume
Photo: Güvenç Özgür

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