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Delfin Lev is a creative producer and interdisciplinary artist from Istanbul, based in Amsterdam since 2021. In her practice, she explores fractured spaces and identities. 

Fascinated by spatial, cultural, and object-centered habits, she draws from existing patterns to create meditations on connection, intimacy, and social hierarchies. 
She works as a creative producer at Whale Amsterdam since 2023.

Detailed CV available upon request


IN SITUSonic  intervention, 15 min
January 2024


Drawing from the cadence of football and horserace narrators, In Situ is an audio intervention that plays with the tropes and choreographies of club culture.

Taking a bird’s eye look at the dance floor, the narrator watches over three characters in the audience and describes their movements with tenacity. The work plays with the dichotomy of spontaneity and predictability of nightlife, and how we move around in it.

In Situ seamlessly takes over the sound system in between DJ sets, and is experienced in between bouts of dancing.

#1 JOB SIFRE
#2 RHYTHYM 100

Performances
  • De Sering, Amsterdam

COLD LINEInteractive sonic sculptureJanuary 2023

The first object of the triad “Tools of Abject Empathy”.

Cold Line invites the viewer to eavesdrop on an evolving soundscape presented in a dialless, numberless Vertushka telephone. 

Designed as an evocative object inspired by landline eavesdropping, the work explores the isolating nature of tools of intimacy. Presenting two telephones that have become autonomous, that neither ring nor can be dialled, Cold Line imagines an intimacy abstracted through a tool that has moved into this tool and now exists beyond its persons. 


A phone line that roams freely by its own will between connections and conversations, where the only seat to take is that of the intruder.

Collaborators
Alec Mateo, Quentin Lepoutre

Exhibitions
  • Galerie de Schans, Netherlands 2023
  • Shortwood,  Belgium 2023
  • Huis Marseille 2023

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CORRECTIONSSoundwalk, 15 min
May 2023


Playing with the form and tropes of a museum audio guide, Corrections subverts traditional notions of authority and offers a surreal guided walk through the Rijksmuseum’s Gallery of Honour, in which disembodied narrators open the gates for affects destabilizing of the distance these spaces require.

Collaborators
Alec Mateo

Exhibitions
  • Rijksmuseum, Netherlands

Photography
Lonneke van der Palen

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3 AM EXODUSArtbook,  67 pages
150  copies
August 2021


3 AM Exodus is a collection of poems and illustrations built around the names of twelve people. Each poem is written only with words that are numerical equivalents of the names, as a way of letting them tell their story through Gematria.

Acquired  by
  • Dante ve Istakoz, Turkey
  • Minoa Bookstore, Turkey
  • Robinson Crusoe, Turkey
  • San Serriffe, Netherlands
  • Perdu, Netherlands
  • KA Space for Visual Culture and Artistic Thinking
  • Shopi Go Art

LINK TO INTERVIEW


Design
E S Kibele Yarman
Printing and Binding
Printcenter
Photography
Zeynep Fırat





PENTIMENTO 
Spatial  installation
March 2022



"Pentimento" is an immersive installation designed to interact with the architectural features of gallery W139 in Amsterdam. Inspired by the narrow staircase that serves as a primary passage between floors, the work disrupts the circulation with a text piece visible only through a mirror positioned to face the staircase.
The text, written in bright green letters on the steps' risers, reads:
"THIS IS A REFLECTIVE SURFACE BUT YOU CANNOT DRINK FROM IT."

Prompting the visitors to pause as they encounter it, Pentimento causes a further congestion in the already constrained space.
By using an object of vanity as it’s frame, "Pentimento" challenges the immunity of the looker, and suggests an alternative frame.

Exhibitions
  • Mar 2022, W139 Netherlands




FOR A NIGHT 
Short Documentary, 11 min


For a Night is a short documentary that explores the image of a woman as an online entity and its relation to the complex individual it represents. The work investigates the translation of an individual into an online persona that can be gazed at any time of the day messaged at any moment. In her long durational performance, the music and performance artist “Myrwood”, takes a seat in the window of the fashion house Vanderwilt in Amsterdam Centrum, where she will eat, sleep and live for the following five days while being showcased, with her phone number glowing on a red led sign. While being presented to the eyes of the passer-by’s at all hours of the day, she will stay online on numerous dating apps and online platforms all her waking hours. Among the people who message her, she invites those who want to meet up to Sexyland for a secret performance, on the same day and at the same hour.

Screenings

In press

Het Parool




WAKING THEORY 


Short film,  9 minutes
April 2024


Four troubled individuals commit to a healing sanctuary outside the city to reenact their dreams through movement performances. Under the scrutiny of an ominous leader, they wish to exorcize the body of its emotional burden and attain a sense of an awakening.

Screenings
Nov 8 2024, Akbank Sanat,  Istanbul Dance Camera Festival

Collaborators
Sebastian Vasquez, Margarita Kosareva
, Eloy Cojal, Hayley Mathers, Lidewij Wolthers, Ivana B Jade, Lea Ellemann






TRUST ME’ Short documentary,  20 minutes
June  2022


Four people who immigrated to Amsterdam for different reasons and in different eras discuss their experience as an immigrant in a heart to heart conversation along with an audiovisual collage of analogue photography and a soundscape collected over the course of 6 months.

Screenings
  • VOX-POP, Netherlands

Collaborators
Sebastien Vasquez, Sol Reategui, Vini Schmidt, DJ Bounty 3000, Boaz van Dongen Quatro, Gatti Amsterdam, Studio FCP