"A Video Artist In Search of Identity By Ezgi Basaran Word Count: 1,646 The style of Turkish video artist and film maker Kutlug Ataman is deceptively simple. He points the camera at his subjects; they talk. But in the process, layers of identity are peeled away, making us witness to a bare human life. Mr. Ataman, born in Istanbul in 1961 and a graduate of UCLA's film school, caught the attention of the art scene in 2002 with his work 'Küba,' a video installation on 40 screens portraying the marginalized residents of a shantytown in Istanbul. The work, which was short-listed for the Tate museum's Turner Prize, revealed a self-constructed society in the ..."
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