Didem Erbas

Didem Erbas

Didem is an artist born in Istanbul, currently living and working in Istanbul. She holds a BA in Painting from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University and an MA in Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design at Sabanci University.  In her practice, she works with installation, site-specific installation/intervention, paintings, sound and video with a focus on geography, human intervention to nature, traces on spaces, and transformation. In her works, she is interested in socio-political issues in her living geography – Turkey.

Didem’s exhibition at the SVA aimed to juxtapose warfare with non-human entities. The exhibition explored how unmanned war vehicles and tiny creatures coexist within their own worlds, against a backdrop of human-induced destruction. This was a short dream. Someone else’s dream. The slugs were watching us from the ceiling lkie drones and soon there will be a world they will dominate.