Tack! Installation by Cem A. at HDK-Valand

Cem A.

Photo: Hendrik Zeitler

The site-specific installation titled "Tack!" builds on Cem A.'s on-going interest in linguistic landscape in art institutions. It focuses on the abundance of laminated signs that can be observed across the spaces of HDK-Valand. It questions the hegemony of signs -laminated signs in particular- within the context of educational institution. Rather than countering their existence, the intervention satirises the signs by echoing the power that is encapsulated in the process of lamination.

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Cem A.

Cem A. is an artist and curator with a background in anthropology. He is known for running the art meme page @freeze_magazine. Since its inception in 2019, @freeze_magazine has become a tool for creative collaborations between Cem and fellow artists, researchers and organisations. His memes explore topics such as survival and alienation in the art world, often through a hyper-reflexive lens.

Selected exhibitions include documenta fifteen, Kassel (2022) and solo exhibitions Hope You See Me as a Friend at Barbican Centre, London (2022); Pleased to Announce… at Versus Art Project, Istanbul (2022) and The Party at Weserhalle, Berlin (2021). He has held lectures at HeK Haus der Elektronischen Künste, Basel; Universität der Künste, Berlin; Royal College of Art and Central Saint Martins, London. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Art Newspaper and Dazed Magazine.

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