belit sağ’s background is rooted in alternative video-activist/ artist groups in Ankara and Istanbul, where she co-initiated groups such as VideA, Karahaber, and Videoccupy. The overarching themes in her recent work are the ‘violence of images’ and ‘images of violence’. Most of her works revolve around the role of images in the media and issues of representation and visibility. sağ tries to address larger political issues in a personal way, making them accessible to a broad public and playing with their proximity to daily life. Explicitly discussing its own production and censorship at the hands of Turkish officials, belit sağ’s Ayhan and me is an incisive examination of the power of images, the roles and responsibilities of representation and sanctioned history-making, and the charged relationship between art and state control.
