Ali Kazma. Timemaker.= Zamanci. [Exhibition catalogue]. Edited by Ilkay Balic. Foreword by Emre Baykal.

New English Original bdg. HC. Large 8vo. (20 x 20 cm). In English and Turkish. 192 p., 540 numerous color ills. Arter is hosting Ali Kazma's solo exhibition "timemaker" between 30 January and 5 April. The exhibition features 22 videos selected from the works Ali Kazma has been producing since 2005. "timemaker" brings together selected works from two ongoing series, "Obstructions" and "Resistance," with several other works, making it the artist's most extensive solo exhibition to date. The majority of the works in the exhibition are shown in Turkey for the first time. "Clock Master" (2006), the opening piece of "timemaker", is one of the earlier videos of the "Obstructions" series which Ali Kazma began producing in 2005. In this series, which as of now comprises 18 pieces, the artist carries out research into the tense equilibrium between order and chaos, life and death. The title of the series refers to the fundamental scientific truth that everything must eventually disintegrate and perish, pointing to the sum of production and repair activities as the individual's endless effort to fight this inevitable process of timemaker also features a wide selection from the series "Resistance". In this series, Ali Kazma explores the interventions and strategies that both release the body from its own restrictions and restrict it in order to control it. Works from the "Resistance" series are shown at Arter in a similar fashion to their installation at the Arsenale building in Venice -with a spatial organization that allows a dialogue between them annihilation -and ultimately death-in order to at least slow down and delay this process. Alongside the videos from the "Obstructions" and "Resistance" series, the exhibition features other works including "Today", "Absence", "Past", "Written", "Clerk", and the limited edition book "Recto Verso". The exhibition traces the notion of time in the works installed, and in the dialogue between them in relation to Kazma's own production process.