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Kerem Topuz

BIOGRAPHY / TEKİRDAĞ, 1978

As a Director and multidisciplinary artist, Kerem Topuz was trained in Akademi İstanbul for Cinema and TV between years 1996-98. Was engaged with video and visual installation activities in the concerts of Istanbul’s experimental music group Sad Eyed Lemurs. Took part in collective projects jointly with new artists as well as art student groups. In 2011, he was awarded with prizes in the international arena by means of such feature length motion picture titled “Film” which he shot under improvisation technique. In 2013, the book he wrote on motion Picture theory was published from Altıkırkbeş Publications under the title of ‘Improvised Film Shooting’. He acted as Cinema Department Head under Akademi Istanbul. He organized seminars at various universities on ‘Improvised Cinema and Guerilla Cinematography’. In 2014, the motion picture titled ‘Outlaws” as a script writer was released to theater houses. Thereafter, he gave emphasis to painting and collage works that he had suspended for a while.

In the works generated under different disciplines, Topuz creates serial production items and popular symbols upon duplicating the same via digital techniques at times, and on other occasions using together various materials and findings which are irrelevant. He releases the materials, symbols used from their meanings acknowledged visually, isolates the same and combines them with irrelevant materials. Thereby, upon re-identifying the popular culture images, iconic works of art or daily consumption items in an ironic manner beyond their actual meanings and emphasizes their ‘kitschy’ elements. In other words, the artist preferring to use ordinary and well-known images in his works overall, is converting the banality of daily life through high-contrast and lively colors, into re-generated qualified (non-qualified) objects.