Onur Ciddi
Onur Ciddi is an Istanbul based artist who creates artwork integrated with the stories from the past and archival visual founding. He recently worked on the Oral History project, which focused on minorities’ daily life experience and everyday resistance in the People’s Republic of Bulgaria. Memory within space and time hold a significant place in his notion of work and creation. In his works, he follows a dialectic relation between space and time. According to this correlation, neither space nor time can exist without the other and constitute the grounds for memory to be set up. Without the space, memory cannot hold on and gets lost in time. And without memory, human beings cannot exist, as nothing remains. If a human being does not remember, only time remains. Humans exist as long as they have the memory of the space where they were born and had lived. Thus, as long as space is remembered, time can exist. Otherwise, there isn’t a past left, resulting in non-being. The artist continues to work both in Bulgaria and Turkey. He has recently graduated from History studies at the Boğaziçi University, Istanbul.
Onur Ciddi je umetnik iz Istanbula. Njegova dela so povezana s preteklostjo in temeljijo na zgodbah in vizualnem arhivskem gradivu. V zadnjem času se ukvarja s projektom ustnega izročila, ki se posveča vsakdanjim življenjskim izkušnjam manjšin in njihovemu nenehnemu upiranju v Ljudski republiki Bolgariji. Spomini, umeščeni v prostor in čas, zasedajo pomembno mesto v njegovem pojmovanju dela in ustvarjanja. V delih sledi dialektičnemu odnosu med prostorom in časom. Glede na njuno korelacijo, prostor in čas ne moreta obstajati drug brez drugega in skupaj tvorita podlago, na kateri se lahko vzpostavi spomin. Brez prostora se spomin ne bi imel česa oprijeti in bi se izgubil v času. Brez spomina pa človeška bitja ne morejo obstajati, saj jim ne bi nič ostalo. Če se človeško bitje ne spominja, tudi časa ne more zaznati. Človek lahko obstaja samo, če se lahko spominja prostorov, v katerih se je rodil in živel. In dokler se spominja prostora, obstaja tudi čas. Brez tega preteklost ne more ostati, ostane le nebivanje. Umetnik nadaljuje delo v Bolgariji in Turčiji. Pred kratkim je vpisal dodiplomski študij na oddelku za zgodovino na Univerzi Boğaziçi v Istanbulu.