:mentalKLINIK is a Brussels-based artist duo from Istanbul composed of Yasemin Baydar and Birol Demir, who began their collaborative practice in 1998 in Istanbul. Their multimedia and conceptual laboratory, as vintage as high-tech, has developed in Istanbul and, more recently, Brussels for five years. The duo strides with undisguised dexterity the invisible political strategies and the social dynamics by ultra-contemporary devices of an apparent lightness.
Through their playful, violent and abrasive vocabulary, the duo constantly twists glamour, rock or post-punk references. Artists reclaim the sparkling and authoritative visual language of the media and night spheres in a climate of sensory hyperstimulation engendered by multiple neons, slogans, light beams, mirror balls and confetti while playing with our unanimous attraction to objects glittering and seductive.
