She completed residencies in Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam in 2014-2015 and International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York in 2016. Her recent video work focuses on ‘the violence of representation’ and ‘representation of violence’.

Her video background is rooted in video-activist groups in Ankara and Istanbul, where she co-initiated projects like (2000-2007) and bak.ma (a growing online audiovisual archive of social movements in Turkey). She studied mathematics in Ankara audio-visual arts in Amsterdam. overexposed, installation view (2017)īelit sağ is a videomaker and visual artist living in Amsterdam. Let Me Remember is presented in collaboration with The Flaherty as part of the Flaherty NYC program COMMON VISIONS, programmed by Almudena Escobar López & Herb Shellenberger.īelit sağ. Squeaky Wheel members are invited to a special VIP between 6–7pm with complimentary wine and refreshments. Join us on Friday January 19th for the opening reception of the exhibition at Squeaky Wheel at 7pm and don’t miss a public conversation between the artist and Jasmina Tumbas at 7:30pm. Two newly commissioned essays on the belit sağ’s work by Almudena Escobar López and Chi-hui Yang also accompany the exhibition.

The works in Let Me Remember bring together archival footage of the NSU’s victims, images of objects from the crime scenes, and transcripts of the trials made by local activist groups to ask questions on how white supremacy and whiteness in a European context affect and change narratives. Squeaky Wheel is proud to present the first North American exhibition of this emerging artist, and bring to the public the acuity with which sağ questions the role of media. German media reports at the time ignored the racial motivations of their violence.īelit sağ’s work explores how media imagery can render the visibility (and invisibility) of personhood in a personal and essayistic form.

The NSU was a terror group that killed ten people and planted bombs in migrant neighborhoods between 2000–2008. Comprised of five new video installations, Let Me Remember functions as an investigation into the state of being racialized in Europe, taking a series of brutal murders by the German National Socialist Underground (NSU) as its context. Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center presents Let Me Remember, the first solo exhibition of artist and videoactivist belit sağ (Netherlands/Turkey) in North America. Download the brochure with new essays by Almudena Escobar López and Chi-hui Ya ng

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