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Industry	Arts
Occupation	Artist
Location	London - Istanbul, United Kingdom
Introduction	Cinarel’s work explores the politics that surround the family through the indescribably personal prism of his own childhood tensions where hyper-macho pop culture spilled over into reality. Ilker is still trying to reconcile where he belongs within this masculine dominated culture and context. Questioning the place of intimacy and humour within an overtly masculine context, he playfully makes visible the structures which contain societal stereotypes. Cinarel’s investigative processes involve both aestheticizing and politicizing his personal experiences and relationship with his surroundings, raising questions that concern cultural identity and the social and political environment that he lives in. In particular, themes around men and masculinity. Here are some examples of the work that I have been exhibiting and that play their part in my ongoing practice. There are Paintings, Film, Installation, Performance, and Drawings and all the other stuff that emerges from my studio.