Ali Alisir

Born in Istanbul in 1978, Ali Alışır started his artistic education in 1996 by the virtue of a scholarship at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Yeditepe University in Turkey. Consequently, he attained his master’s degree in photography at Accademia Italiana in Florence, Italy, specialising in digital editing. 

Focusing initially within his oeuvre on the concept of the virtual, Alışır created four distinct series between 2009 and 2015: Virtual Bodies, Virtual Places, Virtual Wars and Virtual Landscapes. He chose to concentrate on the virtual due to his relentless pursuit in understanding the impact of technology on the structuring of society, especially in the context of accessing information. Following the commercial and institutional success of the Virtual series, Alışır went on to explore the space outside of our own – literally, through his Cosmos, as well as Hybrid Souls, the latter treating the human being as a microcosm.