Ali Alışır | Book launch and selection of artworks
September 2019View Video
Ali Alışır, “Hybrid Souls” 02, Ver.3 Ed. 2/2
Unique archival pigment print
61" x 49"
Ali Alışır, “Hybrid Souls” 03, Ver.3 Ed. 2/2
Unique archival pigment print
61" x 49"
Ali Alışır, “Hybrid Souls” 01, Ver.3 Ed. 2/2
Unique archival pigment print
61" x 49"
Ali Alışır, “Hybrid Souls I”
Unique archival pigment print
41” x 82”
Ali Alışır, “Hybrid Souls X”
Unique archival pigment print
51” x 40”
Ali Alışır, “Hybrid Souls II”
Unique archival pigment print
48” x 102”
Ali Alışır, “Hybrid Souls XV”
Unique archival pigment print
51” x 40”
Ali Alışır, “Hybrid Souls III”
Unique archival pigment print
45” x 95"
Ali Alışır, “Hybrid Souls V”
Unique archival pigment print
60” x 130”
Ali Alışır, “Hybrid Souls XVII”
Unique archival pigment print
48” x 41”
Ali Alışır, “Hybrid Souls XII”
Unique archival pigment print
66” x 56”
Ali Alışır “Hybrid Souls XIII”
Unique archival pigment print
66” x 56”
Ali Alışır, “Hybrid Souls VII”
Unique archival pigment print
57” x 110”
Ali Alışır, “Hybrid Souls XIV”
Unique archival pigment print
59” x 50”
Ali Alışır, “Hybrid Souls XVI”
Unique archival pigment print
51” x 40”
Ali Alışır, “Hybrid Souls XIX”
Unique archival pigment print
60” x 49”
Ali Alışır, “Hybrid Souls XXI”
Unique archival pigment print
53” x 53”
Ali Alışır, “Hybrid Souls VI”
Unique archival pigment print
33” x 70”
Ali Alışır, “Hybrid Souls VIII” SOLD
Unique archival pigment print
45” x 95”
Ali Alışır, “Hybrid Souls IV” SOLD
Unique archival pigment print
41” x 86”
Ali Alışır, “Hybrid Souls IX” SOLD
Unique archival pigment print
33” x 70”
Ali Alışır, “Hybrid Souls XVIII” SOLD
Unique archival pigment print
51” x 43”
Ali Alışır "Hybrid Souls #14" SOLD
Unique archival pigment print
57" x 110"
Ali Alışır, "Hybrid Souls #13" SOLD
Unique archival pigment print
53" x 106"
Ali Alışır, "Hybrid Souls #12" SOLD
Unique archival pigment print
53" x 100"
Ali Alışır was born in Istanbul in 1978. His art education began in 1996 upon being awarded a scholarship by the Faculty of Fine Arts from the University of Yeditepe. He obtained his master's degree in photography from the Accademia Italiana in Florence, where he majored in digital editing. Ali Alisir’s past exhibitions “Virtual Bodies”, “Virtual Places”, “Virtual Wars” and “Virtual Landscapes”, explored the desperation and helplessness experienced by individuals in a world of constant media overload. These exhibitions examined more closely the virtual and artificial worlds that are created in response to the digital age.
“Melez Ruhlar” will be Ali Alisir’s first exhibition in North America, also known as “Hybrid Souls”. This ongoing photographic series focuses on the collective stress experienced by contemporary culture. Here, Alisir’s subjects attempt to achieve peace, despite being ensnared by the complexity and haste of modern life. The artist aims to reflect inner conflict in physical movement. His hybrid bodies melt into one another with such precipitousness, making it impossible to focus on one individual subject. Subsequently, by superimposing layers of human bodies, Alisir seeks to examine the societal issues that manifest in many different forms and through various fields, such as philosophy, sociology, literature, and cinema. Alisir’s hybrid human bodies all struggle separately yet together, creating a chaotic harmony in defiance of the complexities of modern-day life.
Ali Alışır’s works are exhibited in many private and public collections, including the Istanbul Modern Art Museum, the Presidential Palace of the Republic of Turkey, and 94 embassies in the world.
Treating Ali Alışır’s artistic practice in periods, the book reveals the visual-imaginative journey of his individual civilizational narrative by presenting to readers his 2009-2019 series Hybrid Souls (2017), Cosmos (2016), Virtual Landscapes (2014), Virtual Wars (2012), Virtual Places (2011), Virtual Bodies (2009), as a path leading from the body’s creation, to the body’s association with space/place, the body’s abandonment of this place and entry into war with other bodies, the body’s relinquishment of warfare and self-surrender to nature and landscapes, all the way to the body’s discovery of the cosmos by orienting itself from the world to the universe, and then from the universe to its own inner and spiritual existential search. The exhibition held in parallel to this book on Ali Alışır’s decade-long artistic journey allows art audiences to visually validate the book’s content.
Ali Aliṣir is a Fine Art Photographer from Istanbul. The next photographic series focuses on the collective stress experienced by contemporary culture. Here, Aliṣir's subjects attempt to achieve peace, despite being ensnared by the complexity and haste of modern life. The artist aims to reflect the inner conflict in physical movement. His hybrid bodies melt into one another with such precipitousness, making it impossible to focus on one individual subject. Subsequently, by superimposing layers of human bodies, Aliṣir seeks to examine the societal issues that manifest in many different forms and through various fields, such as philosophy, sociology, literature and cinema. Aliṣir's hybrid human bodies all struggle seperately yet together, creating a kind of chaotic harmony in defiance of the complexities of modern-day life.
We have made a detailed interview with the academician and contemporary photography artist Ali Alışır about his works, production process and exhibition. After the education of graphics at Yeditepe University, you studied photography at Accademia Italiana. Although graphics has a close relationship with photography, how come did you choose photography as a means of communication? Ali Alışır : I had already been painting long before I started my education in graphics. The year I entered Yeditepe University with achievement grant, the faculty of fine arts were on Büyükada. Our education environment was a fascinating place as the island, and in terms of academic staff we had a rare fortune. At the university I had the chance to visit lots of exhibitions and to read the publications on the plastic arts. I saw that many things one plans to do have already been done or said. They have been done or somehow mentioned about by others before you.
