Alican Durbaş (b.1986, Istanbul) currently resides in Istanbul. His main focus lies in investigating the relationship between cinema and video art. In his works, he explores the possibilities of establishing a narrative to be watched, to be followed and the opportunities to create actions, environments to be seen and further, to be experienced, within the framework of certain formalist boundaries. As a result of these researches, his latest work, Soil (2017) was screened in the short film competitions of many international film festivals such as Sharjah Film Platform (2019), 37th Istanbul Film Festival (2018), 16th Tirana Film Festival (2018) and in addition, it was exhibited as a video installation at venues such as Beirut Art Center, Los Angeles Digital Arts Center and at events such as the 9th Cairo Video Festival (2019) and the 22nd Rencontres Traverse Vidéo, Toulouse, (2019). Exhibitions Alican Durbaş has participated in, along with his other video works, are Open Air Museum of Digital Art, BIENALSUR, (2019); Surplus, Rem Art Gallery, Istanbul (2016); Port City Talks, Museum Aan de Stroom, Antwerp, (2016); Connecting The Dots: Workshops, Pera Museum, Istanbul, (2013) and Water Work, Siemens Art Gallery, Istanbul, (2013).