Three Pieces Glass Plates, Photo Collage, Various Size Hand-cut Laser Print Photograph on Acetate Paper, Water, Glass
2. Video Installation
Three Channel Video Installation (15 min long each)
3. Site-specific Installation
Overhead Projector, Two-channel Sound Installation, Plexiglass Boxes, Laser Print Photographs on Acetate Paper, Glass Pedestal, Scissors, Ruler, Found Stone, Water
The installation looks at the river from three directions: from above, from across, and from below. Photo-collages, printed on acetate, cut by hand, assembled in water, and fixed between two sheets of glass, carry these views into the space—onto the floor, at eye level, and overhead—so that the viewer looks at the river from the positions I stood in when photographing it. In the collage that builds a bird’s-eye view of the river, two flows, one from the source and one from the sea, meet in the middle; beginning and end converge in the same place.
While a three-channel video shows how these surfaces were made, on the other side of the room the same process is opened to the viewer. In a water-filled pool resting on two overhead projectors, visitors cut “Along the River” photographs to build their own landscapes, which are projected onto the wall; beside it, a worktable holds prints from the archive, river stones, and cutting tools. The river thus enters the gallery not as scenery but as an archive, a water surface, and a material passed from hand to hand, and each landscape built during the exhibition adds a new layer to its ongoing movement.
Exhibition #1 – Bilsart Project, Istanbul, TR
New landscapes of viewers who came to the interactive space created with overhead projectors, a plexiglass pool, glass, and photographs.