Ahmet Öğüt

Ahmet Ögüt, Let it be known to all persons here gathered, 2012. Photograph by Jerry Hardman-Jones

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Öğüt makes work that questions the way we chart and engage with history; focusing on the gaps and connections between subjective and collective memory. In these spaces, he constructs new versions and narratives – often playful and absurd – that counterbalance the relationship between history and the ideology.

Öğüt’s film documents a journey undertaken by a horse rider, dressed as a postman. The postman rode from Liverpool to Manchester, and in the style of a Royal Address, he delivered invitations to attend Liverpool Biennial.

Ahmet Öğüt (b. 1981, Diyarbakir, Turkey) lives and works in Amsterdam. Exhibitions include Or Whistle Spontaneously (Delfina Foundation, London, 2012), Modern Essays 1: Across the Slope (SALT, Istanbul, Turkey, 2011) and Black Diamond – Het Oog 3 (Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 2010).

Ahmet Öğüt at Liverpool Biennial 2012

Video installation
Exhibited at The Cunard Building