Born in Istanbul in 1978, Ali Alışır started his graphic education in 1996 upon being awarded a success scholarship by the Faculty of Fine Arts of Yeditepe University. He studied his master degree in photography at Florence Accademia Italiana. He concentrated in digital editing during his master degree education.
In his exhibitions of "Virtual Bodies", "Virtual Places", "Virtual Wars" and "Virtual Landscapes" and "Hybrid Souls" held between 2009-2017, Ali Alışır, has exhibited a study of time and perspective trough mixture of mixed media and photographic manipulations. His works explore desperation and helplessness, stress experienced by humans through complexity of the modern life and the interconnection of the virtual and artificial worlds of present era.
The artist, who aims to emphasize the conflicts and mental state of the humans in their inner world by means of body movements, examines the social problems in different disciplines such as philosophy, sociology, literature and cinema through the works he has produced by means of digital interventions, and he brings up such problems to the agenda, and also, he warns about an alternative “Space” with new image editing he has produced.
His masterful photographic manipulations studies both human morphology and also consists of nature and architecture morphology studies. Ali Alışır’s works are exhibited on many private and foreign collections including Istanbul Modern Art Museum, Presidential Palace of the Republic of Turkey and 94 embassies.
