Artist SUMER EREK
Sumer Erek is a Cyprus-born, London-based sculptor and installation artist, with extensive experience in public art installation, and creating large-scale works and performative projects in the UK and abroad.
Recent large-scale projects include the ‘Raw Earth Project’ (a multi-disciplinary project that was presented in Cyprus, Berlin, Stockholm and Barcelona during 2006 - 2007); the 
‘Upside Down House’ (above, London, Glasgow, Liverpool 2001 - 2002); the ‘Bath’(Liverpool Biennial 2002); and “Mirrors of Displacement” (London 2003).
The private, domestic environment is a central metaphor that runs throughout Erek’s work, and it is important to discuss the artist’s work – both what is to come and what already exists - by taking this notion of ‘house’ into account. It is a repository for memory and imagination, carrying a metaphor for identity and belonging.
In the Newspaper House, Erek questions the boundaries between local and global, nationhood and universality, private and public. "My 'houses' are temporary shelters, he says, that suit my nomadic existence." By creating a house, he does not only consider his own existence within it, but also builds a 'home' for art.
SUMER EREK WEBLINKS
Sumer Erek Liverpool Biennial 2006