Cevdet Erek’s (1974, Istanbul) work is characterised by a marked use of rhythm and site specificity. Erek combines video, sound and images, often in an attempt to alter the viewer’s perception and experience of a given space. The result functions as a hypothesis, probing the viewer’s instinctive logic and thus appealing to the senses. Interestingly, Erek manages to combine rational components such as references to architecture and linear time with instinctive impulses thereby levelling the gap between two supposedly opposing spheres.

Erek studied 1992-1999 architecture at the Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts Istanbul and 2000-2003 sound engineering and design at the Center for Advanced Studies in Music of Istanbul Technical University.

In 2005-2006 he was artist in residence at the Rijksakademie vanbeeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. In 2011 Erek received a PhD in sound from the Center for Advanced Studies in Music at Istanbul Technical University.