2. Chromogenic Print on Frame
3. Six Channel Sound
4. Mirror, Curtain
The project grew out of a photograph from the “Along the River” series, and its title comes from the first question asked about that photograph: “Is this you?” Uncertainty gives rise to the question. Am I the one within that infinity, or is it someone else? What are they doing? Are they moving toward infinity, or toward an unknown boundary?
Following these questions, the reflection I saw led me first to Narcissus, then to Caravaggio, and to reinterpretations of Las Meninas. As I tried to make the unseen face visible, I drew closer to the idea of water I had long circled around, and began to experience the water I had until then only observed. A journey that began with a question eventually became one of giving that first photograph an identity.
This search took shape in a site-specific installation that reinterprets the composition depicted by Caravaggio. Illuminated photographs suspended from the ceiling, together with sound and scent, create a multi-sensory space; as visitors follow the route of the installation, they pass through the stages of Narcissus’s transformation and are invited to reflect on their relationship with their own self.
Exhibition #1 – The Sun Never Saw a Shadow
Ka Space for Visual Culture and Thinking & Siyah Beyaz Galeri, Ankara, TR – curated by Oğuz Karakütük & Umut Sur