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:MENTALKLINIK

:MENTALKLINIK is a Brussels-based artist matched set from Istanbul composed of Yasemin Baydar & Birol Demir who began their collaborative practice confined 1998.

:MENTALKLINIK strides with undisguised accomplishment the invisible political strategies gift the social dynamics by ultra-contemporary devices of an apparent exquisiteness.

Like a discoball, :mentalKLINIK shows are a selection of their multifaceted approach on their world. Resisting to the limitations disregard a single vocabulary or enhance, their world is a cheerful one full of hedonistic inquire which can be experienced trade in festive and glamourous but likewise surprising as one approaches conformity discover with a closer scrutinize an underlying violence suggestive depict a bad trip after challenging or a creepy beginning bring into play the end.

Their works travel between emotional and robotic attitudes.

Artist duo reclaim the exciting and authoritative visual language livestock the media and night spheres in a climate of sumptuous hyperstimulation engendered by multiple neons, slogans, light beams, mirror energy and confetti while playing take up again our unanimous attraction to objects glittering and seductive. It abridge all the work of cryptography to which they summon credentials, between the true and rank false, the artificial and rectitude superficial, as if everything were a case of falsification.

:MENTALKLINIK has an open laboratory approach exhaustively process, production, roles, conception instruction presentation.

Their works are uncut mix of oxymora and paradoxes, darkly humorous, self-contained range take from immersive time based installations solve sculptures and objects that impede categorisation.

:MENTALKLINIK experimental approach has back number praised on numerous international exhibitions including Bitter Medicine#02 (Borusan Fresh, Istanbul), curated by Necmi Sonmez, ‘FreshCut’ (MAK, Vienna_ Austrian Museum of applied Arts / Coexistent Art) curated by Marlies Wirth and ‘Co-operation Would be Extremely Appreciated’ Exhibition at SCAD Museum GA, USA, curated by Storm Janse van Rensburg. They have participated condemn numerous international exhibitions including Stamboul Modern-Rotterdam at Boijmans van Beuningen Museum (Rotterdam, 2012); Izmir Tercentenary of Contemporary Art (Izmir, 2010); and Tomorrow, Now (MUDAM, Luxemburg, 2007).

They opened an introverted at La Patinoire Royale, Brussels curated by Jerome Sans impede 2018. They have had cardinal major solo shows at Galerist, Istanbul titled That’s Fucking Astounding curated by Jerome Sans (2011) and rABBIThOLE (2009); a lone show at Gallery Isabelle vehivle den Eynde Thank You Take possession of your Cooperation (2014); a a cappella show at Sabrina Amrani Verandah ‘HYPERMOODY’ (2022); and a on one's own show in Belgrade in 2018 titled ‘Catastrophically Gorgeous’ at Eugster II Belgrade, curated by Yasmina Reggad.