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We react to the multitude of images of the world - of the world we live in. This work explores the effects of synchronizing intent, delivery and objectification. The artwork is named after the arena where the tournaments take place, Er Meydani, Place for (brave) Men. This three channel video installation attempts to create a hyper-gaze by coordinating, directing, forcing together the many components that constructed the atmosphere of the arena. My attempt is to intensify the relationship between the observed and the observer. The power of the gaze is empowering. The situation that I construct rises to a lesser extent from a desire to dominate. It is born from the empathic valence of the images of he who surrenders. It is a theater of the momentary defeated, of the broken wrestler.

Ezgi Kilincaslan was born in 1973, Besni-Turkey. She received a degree in art and pedagogic at Marmara University, Istanbul. She lives in Berlin and graduated as "Meister Schüler" from the University of the Arts (UdK) with Prof. Katharina Sieverding. While initially formed as a painter, she is now experimenting with a variety of mediums including photography, video and installation - exploring and questioning matters of power, related with patriarchy and gender. Her films have been shown at various film festivals amongst which the International Film Festival Oberhausen, the International Film Festival of Rotterdam and the Center for Contemporary Art, Geneva.