Artwork
Exhibitions
BIO
Cigdem Aydemir is a Sydney-based artist working in the mediums of installation, performance and video art. Her socially and politically engaged art practice investigates possibilities for intersubjective and transcultural communication with an interest in post- colonial and feminist issues.
Much of her work expands on the veil as a culturally constructed site and as material realisation, while exploring the veiled woman cipher as resistant female other and as lived experience. Through critiquing, decolonizing and queering mechanisms, Cigdem questions established relations of power, while producing work that is driven equally by research, play, criticism and humour.
Cigdem was the 2013 recipient of the Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize, in the Emerging Artist category, and the Edna Ryan Award for Creative Feminism in 2012. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally receiving support and opportunities from Australia Council for the Arts, Arts NSW, Ian Potter Cultural Trust, Freedman Foundation (Travelling Arts Scholarship), Performance Space (Sydney), Salamanca Arts Centre (Hobart), Dark Mofo (Hobart) and Vryfees (South Africa). Most recently her video work, The Ride, was exhibited in a group exhibition at Australia’s pavilion of the XXII Milan Triennale, which received the event’s premiere award, The Golden Bee.
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 The New National Sport, Artshouse, Melbourne
2018 Whirl, Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP), Melbourne
2017 The Ride, Proximity Festival, Perth
2017 Safe, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart
2016 Plastic Histories, Dark Mofo, Hobart, Tasmania
2015 I WON’T LET YOU OUT OF MY SIGHT, Boxcopy, Brisbane
2014 Plastic Histories, Johannes Stegmann Gallery, Bloemfontein, South Africa
2014 Plastic Histories, Vrystaat, Bloemfontein, South Africa
2013 Nothing to see here, Maumau Gallery, Istanbul
2013 Freedom from Transparency, Free Fall program, Oxford Art Factory
2012 (Dis)position, Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Camperdown
2012 Extremist Activity, A-M Gallery, Newtown