Enes Güç
Interview by CultureDot
Guest: Enes Güç
February 2024
Enes Güç. Let’s get right into it. Your creative process. Any habits or rituals that get you into a focused headspace?
Hey there! Right, it usually starts with a feeling I can not beat up. It’s quite easy for me to block everything and live in that feeling while I work on my pieces. I know it’s done when I can explain why I feel that certain way. But I also work in many different mediums and each has their own realities.
It would be fair to say that I follow my instincts and see where gets me.
Tell us about your move from Turkey to Berlin. Has it had a positive or negative impact on your artistic career so far? Why?
I think it's important to be around what you like and what inspires you. I just followed the path that made me feel excited. I don’t think it affects my work so much in terms of authenticity but it definitely changed my perception.
As a visual artist, how are you pushing yourself to stay consistent and evolve?
I'm not putting any effort into staying consistent at all. It’s rather the opposite. My work is evolving as I do in myself and I like to do many different things and also to be able to think in different ways. But at the end whatever comes through me has a little piece of my soul. I think that creates that consistency.
“ I like adjusting and bending different realities till they become their own.”
Can you give us some insight into your work where you construct real world environments from digital ideas.
My ideas are always a mixture of the material world and also the digital world. Sometimes that can create problems, but it makes me find new ways of looking at it at the end. I like adjusting and bending different realities till they become their own. In my past I was in my own fantasy world that I developed as a survival mechanism. But it actually became something that was holding me back rather than helping. Nowadays I try to see things the way they are.
Let's talk about Kinship. How did this project come about and what was the desired outcome?
I’ve started doing personal works which I call CGI paintings. At the time it was just me mixing the things that I liked and needed to do and from there it took its own place in the world.
I was asked if I would be interested in creating a giant cgi painting and since I like to push everything I do to the next stage, I said yes! It was the most complicated and expensive one I have done so far. I wanted to create a space for people like me who needed to be in somewhere between. Neither in hell nor heaven. A place where you are not forced to be in a certain way. Which is also the values of my collaborators.
“…I would like to take a step back and blend my talents and vision with the reality I live in.”
How would you like to see the Web3 space move forward? Any technical suggestions you have for our readers?
Not much to say here since I think it's not the technical part that needs improvements. I just wanna see more soul in it.
Any upcoming projects you wish to speak on?
Actually, my career is at a turning point where I'm starting to walk into more of a director position. I’ve been creating words since I know myself but with the 3D capabilities, I went into phantasy a bit too much. Now I would like to take a step back and blend my talents and vision with the reality I live in. Recently I have directed a music video which made me realize that this is my path. So, keep an eye open, preparing to shake it off.
If you had to eat a meal on a crowded train - would you choose Turkish Kebab or Berlin Döner?
Oh dear! I’m a vegetarian but I'm coming from where Iskender was invented by my relatives so I gotta go with that. It’s simply the best:)
End Interview.
Photo Credits: Photos provided by Enes Güç.