Prop-Surfaces. Photographs printed on pvc mesh and fabric; each approximately 2 x 1.5 m. Installation view from The Universe Flickers at SALT Beyoglu, Istanbul, September 2018.Prop-Surfaces. Photographs printed on pvc mesh and fabric; each approximately 2 x 1.5 m. Installation view from The Universe Flickers at SALT Beyoglu, Istanbul, September 2018.Prop-Surfaces. Photographs printed on pvc mesh and fabric; each approximately 2 x 1.5 m. Installation view from The Universe Flickers at SALT Beyoglu, Istanbul, September 2018.Prop-Surfaces. Photographs printed on pvc mesh and fabric; each approximately 2 x 1.5 m. Installation view from The Universe Flickers at SALT Beyoglu, Istanbul, September 2018.Prop-Surfaces. Photographs printed on pvc mesh and fabric; each approximately 2 x 1.5 m. Installation view from The Universe Flickers at SALT Beyoglu, Istanbul, September 2018.
With Prop-Surfaces, I explore the physical awareness of my immediate environment; between 2015 and 2019, I only photographed from within my apartment or a 50 meter perimeter of wherever I was living. While exploring architectural structures as protagonists through my moving image and sound works within the same exhibition, Prop-Surfaces became visual markers, melting, morphing, and making permeable these structures. In this exhibition, the still images served as visual anchors in the theatrical situation that I was setting up, as well as surfaces through or under which things were seen.
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