Mehmet Dere

Mehmet Dere is a young artist, living in Izmir. His practice is

primarily focused on public interventions and gestures about cultural,
political and social conditions of Turkey. He is living in a
district of Izmir called Gurcesme, where can be briefly described as a
ghetto, because the majority of the inhabitants consists of immigrants
from the east. Therefore his works has a lot to do about his
neighborhood, on identity strategies, sub-culture of the ghetto and
social-political conditions. He produces stencils and site-specific
installations which provoke ideas of both cultural and political
notions. He plays with popular and sub-cultural imagery to point out
the manipulative nature of the system.