{"id":175,"date":"2026-07-20T18:31:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/contourbiennale.org\/?post_type=artist&#038;p=175"},"modified":"2026-08-06T19:22:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T17:22:03","slug":"ozgur-kar","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/contourbiennale.org\/nl\/artist\/ozgur-kar\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00d6zg\u00fcr Kar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">De praktijk van \u00d6zg\u00fcr Kar ontvouwt zich op het snijpunt van geluid, beeldhouwkunst, animatie en installatie. Ge\u00efnspireerd door folklore, experimenteel theater, vroege animatie, traditioneel schaduwspel en televisiecultuur bouwt Kar non-lineaire theatersc\u00e8nes waarin verlangen, sterfelijkheid, verveling en hunkering telkens terugkeren, een toestand die tegelijk intiem, absurd en wereldvreemd is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HEAVY GROUND<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> toont een romantische, opera-achtige ontmoeting tussen twee vliegen die vastzitten op een lijmval. Ze bezingen elkaar en vinden elkaar in een tedere laatste vereniging, omringd door dode vliegen in hetzelfde plakkerige landschap. Vliegen zijn een terugkerend motief in Kars werk, een knipoog naar de <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">musca depicta<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> uit de eeuwenoude <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">memento mori<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-traditie, die stilstaat bij sterfelijkheid en verval. In plaats van de afkeer die vliegen doorgaans oproepen te bevestigen, benadert Kar hun onderlinge relatie met tederheid en geeft ze ruimte aan genegenheid, zang en rouw.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Het duet ontstond in samenwerking met muzikant Arnlj\u00f3tur Sigurdsson en is ge\u00efnspireerd door een iconische opname van Clara Rockmore \u2013 de gevierde thereminvirtuoos uit het begin van de twintigste eeuw \u2013 van Manuel de Falla&#8217;s Andalusische ballet <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">El amor brujo<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Liefde, de magi\u00ebr<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) uit 1915. Zo verbindt het werk uiteenlopende emotionele en culturele registers over verschillende tijdsperiodes heen.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":179,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-175","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u00d6zg\u00fcr Kar - Contour Biennale 11<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/contourbiennale.org\/artist\/ozgur-kar\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"nl_NL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u00d6zg\u00fcr Kar - Contour Biennale 11\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"De praktijk van \u00d6zg\u00fcr Kar ontvouwt zich op het snijpunt van geluid, beeldhouwkunst, animatie en installatie. 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