:mentalKLINIK, 1998

Founded in 1998 by Yasemin Baydar and Birol Demir, :mentalKLINIK uses all kinds of materials and forms, drawn from today’s art, to question the dynamics of contemporary art and design. They produce projects by analyzing and reinventing the processes of production, selection, presentation, use and perception in art, like an open laboratory or clinic. :mentalKLINIK do not hesitate to use anything that represents the zeitgeist of today in their art, pointing to the contemporary reality by using action, objects, sculpture, texts, sound and moving image in the compositions they conceive. In their works, they build a minimalist approach and a multilayered, conceptual structureWhile the materials they use in their works continue to reflect their existing references, forms and characteristics, they are also metamorphosed through the interventions of the artists so as to offer a new aesthetic form, perception and area for interpretation that could be considered awkward, uncanny and extraordinary.

In “Sliver”, :mentalKLINIK creates a twenty-first century aesthetic in which traces of excess and anxiety are joined in a productive dialog with the pared down methodology of minimalism. The attractive and radiant materials they use point to the aesthetic forms shaped by consumerism.