For many young Turkish artists, everyday life and their social milieu provide rich source material for analysing the complexities of their times. This work involves certain risks when taking a critical stance regarding political and cultural issues which are a sore point for the powers that be, but it does help in defining new goals that facilitate individual and collective change. Bülent Sangar analyses the ways in which political, religious and family authority determine our conduct.

He uses himself and people close to him as subjects and objects in his mise en scènes, which are set in his workshop and in which the artist appears dressed in Levi jeans in different military poses – an ironic metaphor for the authoritarianism by which we are regimented.

- Rosa Martínez, Cream – Contemporary Art in Culture