DUYGU DEMİR
Türkiye’de Sanatlar Sentezi
Duygu Demir’s research project Art Synthesis in Turkey, which aims to research Turkey’s artist-architect collaborations dating back to 1970’s from the 1950’s and to find and document the remaining works from this period, is among the projects that received FSAF’s 2017-2018 2nd term support. In the course of the one year long project, Demir together with artist-photographer Bahar Yürükoğlu, aim to document in their current state the buildings and artworks from a period key to Turkey's modern history, to immortalize their stories before getting lost and to remember and remind them.
Born in 1985.
She received a combined BA degree in Art History and Visual Arts from Columbia University in 2008. She is a PhD candidate in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Art and Architecture program at MIT. Her dissertation is provisionally titled A Syncretic Modernism: Articulations of Painting in Turkey 1933-1964. She is interested in modern and contemporary art, especially but not exclusively of the non-Western variety. Her research topics include exhibition histories, transnational encounters, and moments of confluence between art and architecture. Before her graduate studies, she worked as a programmer (of time and space) at SALT in Istanbul. Her most recent curatorial project, Projected Architectures is an irregular and peripatetic program of moving images that engage with the built environment, and will start at MIT’s Keller Gallery in the fall of 2017.