ÖMER ALI KAZMA::::
born 1971, Istanbul
Lives and works in Istanbul

As a video artist, Ömer Ali Kazma has always challenged the boundaries of film as a factual medium. Thematically he follows and examines the complexity of issues between opposites and his artworks are always precise, beautiful, and powerful. His work raises fundamental questions about the meaning and significance of human labor and the meaning of economy, production, and social organization.

The tendency for concentrated energy not to
stay localized, to disperse if it has a chance
and isn’t hindered somehow.

The tendency for the universe to go from
order to disorder.

Order exists in tiny bits and pieces in the
universe and is always an exception and is
always at the expense of more disorder being
created somewhere else.

Order, which has created life, is only possible
in small regions such as our galaxy which
deviates significantly from the dead thermal
equilibrium that rules the universe. It is not
the norm but a very improbable deviation.
As human beings we celebrate the incredible
odds against our existence by trying to
mirror the way we have come to exist in the
first place. From the very simple to the very
complex, we have built our world.

Maintaining useful things that exist, repairing
what still has potential, throwing away
what is not needed anymore while creating
new ideas and things that in time will be
maintained and repaired is a fair sum of
the majority of all human activity since the
beginning.