Catalogue > At random

A solitary traveller is journeying around the Balkans where he is making a 16mm film about the architecture of psychiatric hospitals in the region in preparation for a PhD proposal. As his journey progresses he changes his original plan and begins to fraternise with the patients, filming them instead. As he becomes more immersed in the environments he visits, he is eventually noticed by relatives in one of the hospitals. They decide to teach him a lesson and follow him out of town to a cave.

Deniz Eroglu (b. 1981, based in Berlin and Amsterdam) works with film, video, performance, sculpture. Thematically his work centres around cultural identity, human relations, the institutionalisation of life, Utopias, “enlightened“ individuals”, loneliness. His work has been shown at Stedelijk Museum; Sharjah Art Foundation; MMK; Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden; MAXXI Museum; Statens Museum for Kunst; ARKEN Museum; Kunstverein Harbuger Bahnhof; Kunstmuseum Brandts; The Marrakech Biennial and Kunsthalle Darmstadt.