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Emre Baykal, who has collaborated with Ali Kazma on the occasion of several exhibitions and projects since the 7th Istanbul Biennial, 2001, stated that as a multi-channel video installation, “Resistance” grew out of an earlier series, “Obstructions” (Engellemeler) the artist has produced since 2005. In “Obstructions”, Ali Kazma has carried out research into the tense equilibrium between order and chaos, and life and death, into the efforts of the human being to hold together a world inclined towards disintegration and destruction, and the diversity of physical production developed to achieve this, and what such production might mean in the context of human nature. “Resistance” explores how the body is shaped today via scientific, cultural and social tools and how as a performance site it is repeatedly re-produced. In other words, “Resistance” conveys the productive activity of the body as a creative force directly onto the body itself; the producer and the produced, the shaper and the shaped this time unite in the materiality of the body.
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