Ateş Alpar

Ayvalık, July 2025

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Ateş Alpar

Ayvalık, July 2025

Ateş Alpar (Nusaybin/Mardin) examines borders, identity, archives, and the manifestations of cultural destruction across diverse forms of domination in their multidisciplinary practice. Through materials, recorded sounds, and imagery, they explore the position of bodies, communities, and geographies within homogenized historical narratives. By proposing critical alternatives to normative constructs, Alpar highlights the ambiguity of boundaries, focusing on micro-spaces to unsettle dominant social memory. Alpar approaches encounters with power dynamics through ruptures and processes of reconstruction rather than continuities, contemplating the possibilities of archiving and memory-making, particularly for queer communities. Alpar lives and works in Istanbul.