Kutlag Ataman - an artist I’d like to meet!
"Kutlug Ataman is a consummate storyteller. A film-maker and artist, he is fascinated with the ways in which people tell their own stories. Ataman’s films are portraits of individuals who live on the peripheries of society, defined by ghetto life, peculiar obsessions or transgressive sexualities.
The stories are bound together by Ataman’s open style of filming which allows each person to speak freely and without interference. He says, “…only in actual speech can we witness this amazing rewriting of one’s history and reality. What else is there? Talking is the only meaningful activity we’re capable of.”
His current work Küba is the result of three years’ work with residents of the Istanbul ghetto area. It is a 40 screen work that represents the many voices and lives that occupy this historic shanty-town on the margins of Turkish society.
Wow! What more could a storycollector want?
Visit Küba for free at the Musuem Contemporary Art, Sydney, until the 4th September.
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