Elçi, İ. Ata Doğruel

As part of Pera Museum’s performance project Look Again, İ. Ata Doğruel’s performance Ambassador focuses on the exhibition Intersecting Worlds: Ambassadors and Painters based on the Orientalist Painting Collection. The performance casts a new look at the ambassador portrait paintings from the 17th and 19th centuries, reinterpreting them by discussing the notion of duality. Guided by art, the exhibition narrates the meandering paths of diplomatic history and introduces colorful characters. Doğruel engages in an abstract interpretation of the dual lives of these colorful characters, i.e., ambassadors and painters.

About I. Ata Doğruel

One of Performistanbul artists, I. Ata Doğruel (b. Kütahya, 1991) focuses on concepts such as abstraction and resilience, pushing his physical and intellectual limits. He began his undergraduate studies at Koç University’s Law School, currently continuing them at the Faculty of Media and Visual Arts (MAVA). The artist has staged performances such as 9 days of hunger and 13 days of silence, where he discovers his self, nature, and the universe, and aims to provoke further questions.