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Ahmet Öğüt

hmet Öğüt works with a range of forms to tackle an unending list of political and cultural topics that bleed into everyday life, constantly pushing the limits of his artistic practice. He has addressed the Middle Eastern subculture of ‘car drifting’ through a large-scale public sculpture in Japan (, 2018); police violence through interventions in Milan, Warsaw, Copenhagen and Timişoara (, 2009-18); socio-political affairs in Tulum, through a poetic video (, 2018); and class struggles

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