Series of postage stamps depicting the protraits and names of men, who "dissapeared" while in police custody during the Turkish-Kurdish confllict between 1984 and 1999. Since the 1990s, 17000 people are considered "dissapeared", among them, students, businessmen, and workers.
Halil Altındere (born in 1971 in Mardin, lives in Istanbul) explores political, social and cultural codes, and focuses largely depicting marginalization and resistance to oppressive systems.
Altındere has been a central figure in the Turkish contemporary art world since the mid-1990s, not only as an artist but also as the publisher of art-ist Magazine and as aprominent curator. The artist who reversed the conceptions of nation-state and authority through works on everyday objects like identity cards, banknotes, stamps in his early productions, started to focus on subcultures, gender and odd-but-ordinary situations of everyday life after the 2000s. His ironic and political approach can grasp the audience easily.
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