Ali Koç is a multidisciplinary artist based in Istanbul, working across fashion design, performance art, painting, and sound, their work explores the intersection of movement, identity, and sensory experience, blending different mediums to create immersive narratives, Ali views fashion as a space for transformation, performance as a way to embody ideas, and sound as a tool to evoke emotions, their approach is experimental, constantly evolving, and deeply connected to themes of existence, ritual, and self-expression, the video work explores the relationship between body, movement, and material through somatic movement performed by a body wearing a costume made entirely of hair near a pool, hair carries both personal and collective memory, and the costume blurs the boundary between the body and clothing, creating an ambiguous state of exposure and concealment, this tension is heightened by the sensory and textural nature of hair, evoking a sense of anonymity and transformation, the work aims to evoke the liminality of identity through fluid, embodied movement, transforming the poolside into a meditative space for contemplation of self and memory.
