Profile
Ateş Alpar is a multidisciplinary artist based in Türkiye. Their practice examines borders, identity, archives, and the manifestations of cultural destruction across diverse forms of domination. Through materials, recorded sounds, and imagery, they explore the position of bodies, communities, and geographies within homogenized historical narratives.
By proposing critical alternatives to normative constructs, Alpar highlights the ambiguity of boundaries, focusing on micro-spaces in order to unsettle dominant social memory. Alpar approaches encounters with power dynamics through ruptures and processes of reconstruction rather than continuities, contemplating the possibilities of archiving and memory-making, particularly for queer communities. Originally from Nusaybin, in Mardin, Alpar lives and works in Istanbul.
