Photo series and Installation, An emerging name in the contemporary art scene, Suat Ogut focuses on the body exercises in his most recent work. ‘Center of gravitiy’, the work he has produced for ‘tourist(in)formation’, is a photo installation with indirect references to his older work. Public transportation is where you can observe the actions of the urban population in the routines of dailiy life, the handles that people use to stay in balance have a documentary presence and remind us of the urban regeneration projects in Ogut’s work.
The handles that are placed on a yellow pipes, which are used by the standing passangers, are referenced as material in Ogut’s latest work based on body exercises. The artist noticed a common image in the photographs he took in Izmir: the natural gas pipes in front of the buildings. The definition of ‘Area Subject to Disaster” in the artist’s work, which references both the vertical natural gas pipes and the horizontal bus pipes, reminds us of urban regeneration projects and makes visible the social environment, which is being consturted around class and identity conflicts.
