Light Armoured, 2006
Animation and Sculpture
Light Armoured is a short animation that shows a camouflaged Land Rover being hit by small stones thrown by an unknown source. It is obvious that this vehicle belongs to the army and yet the attack is pathetic, almost comical, as the stones bounce off its armour without causing damage, or miss altogether. Played on a constant loop, the work presents a symbol of what is happening and what will, unfortunately keep on happening in the world. It is both an anti-war gesture, against all camouflaged and normalized tools, which harm humanity and world peace, as well as a comment on the futility of combat.
Light Armoured is a short animation that shows a camouflaged Land Rover being hit by small stones thrown by an unknown source. It is obvious that this vehicle belongs to the army and yet the attack is pathetic, almost comical, as the stones bounce off its armour without causing damage, or miss altogether. Played on a constant loop, the work presents a symbol of what is happening and what will, unfortunately keep on happening in the world. It is both an anti-war gesture, against all camouflaged and normalized tools, which harm humanity and world peace, as well as a comment on the futility of combat.
Animation, 1 min, loop
Animation
1 min, loop
CAPTION: Ahmet Öğüt, Light Armoured, 2006, Animation
Ahmet Öğüt
Ahmet Öğüt, born in 1981 in Diyarbakır, works across a variety of different media often picking up on an urban environment. With an eye for daily encounters and moments of improvisation his works address topics such as structural inequality, state suppression, censorship and forms of resistance. Singular acts of non alignment or collective struggles against militarized powers equally tend to inspire the aesthetic and thematic reflections that occur in Ahmet Öğüt's work just as the way he operates in the institutional ecology surrounding his practice. He had solo shows among others at Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2015), Chisenhale Gallery, London (2015), Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (2012), Kunsthalle Lissabon (2011) and SALT Beyoglu, Istanbul (2011). He has participated in group shows such as the 11th Gwangju Biennale (2016), Manifesta 11 (2016), “Museum On/OFF” at Centre Pompidou, Paris (2016), the 13th Biennale de Lyon (2015), “Political Populism” at Kunsthalle Wien, the Kyiv Biennial (2015) and many more.
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