Installation / Photography / Book
MURAT KAHYA
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Seesaw:
What I Heard and Saw (2024)Site-specific Installation1. Video Installation
One Channel Black and White Color Video
2. Site-specific Installation
181 Pieces Handwriting on Japanese Sketch Paper, 547 Pieces Archival Photo Print on Acetate Paper, Metal Board, Sound Installation, Magnet
3. Photo Installation
Various sizes, Archival Photo Print on Acetate Paper, Tape, Magnet

“Seesaw: What I Heard and Saw” is a project that brings together the past represented by photography and the immediacy of hearing, encompassing archival work, photography, text, and performance. By transcribing conversations I overhear in random places, I turn these fleeting auditory moments into permanent records. I then bring these sounds together with photographs unearthed through archival research, while creating a textual foundation for the images.

The overheard conversations carry clues to social existence; when they meet the photographs, they become an auditory and visual map. The writings and images that begin to sprout on the studio walls eventually evolve into a cube-shaped photobook sculpture. Moving from wall to cube, the structure engages with different spaces and audiences, generating new combinations and meanings through interaction.










You'll leave this place, turn it over to them, and go to the mountains. How will you get the money?





We've made a mistake, haven't we?


it's goes like bread and cheese.




Assembling










oops, it's too steep.
Sister, don't sit in this dump.
hair is an illusion, it makes sense in a monolithic way.
if you wash me from head to toe, we're done!
Mimar Sinan's masterpiece.
Fuck this! Let's go somewhere else.
who will take care of us when we're old.








They broke it! They broke the rocks there.
has a very welcoming energy.
I'm a very cautious person.













Disassembling