Hotel October, Light box, 90 x 70 x 30 cm, 2006

Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin (1957-2007). Working with a variety of media, Alptekin explored the underside of globalization through historical traces, travel, place, memory and time. His installations are composed of found, used and replicated items that came from, or were developed in response to a vast archive of personal research material. These collections, which nearly always include intricate layers of repetition, are organized according to Altepkin's personal systems of visual narrative. In a recent series ‘Incidents’, disparate tales are woven together to present the touching impression of how an individual can control and organize one moment in space and time, as the world continues its activities around them.

Alptekin's work has been exhibited extensively internationally. In 2007 he represented Turkey in the 52nd Venice Biennial with the installation ‘Don’t Complain’, which comprised videos from the ‘Incidents’ series shown in wooden dining cabins inspired by a style of public dining from West Asia. Also in 2007,  Alptekin was selected to present work in the Global Cities exhibition at Tate Modern with the installation ‘Incidents Mumbai and Istanbul', in the exhibition This Then That  at Rodeo, Istanbul and  in the inaugural exhibition Modern and Beyond at SantralIstanbul. Amongst his participation in many other exhibitions and residencies, in 2005 Alptekin's work was included in the 3rd Tirana Biennial; in 2004 in Manifesta 5; in 1998 in the São Paulo Biennial and in 1995 and 2005 in the International Istanbul Biennial.