Vantage Point (2022)Site-specific Installation1. Archival Pigment Print on Frame
2. Duratrans Print on Lightbox Frame, Two Channel Sound


“Vantage Point” is a spatial installation through which I share the experience I gathered on my exploratory journeys along the Kızılırmak River. In this segment of the “Along the River” project, my aim is to make the viewer part of the act of walking along the riverbank and to offer a glimpse of the landscapes one might encounter along the way.

To do this, I derived the position of the two photographs in the space from the angle at which each was taken. The water surface, photographed from above as I leaned toward it, lies in a light box placed on the floor at the center of the room; the viewer bends down to look at it. The slope and the layered cut beneath it, photographed from across, hang on the wall at eye level. Neither image contains a horizon; the horizon forms on its own between wall and floor, at the level of the viewer’s body. In the darkened room, the two images are accompanied by a two-channel sound installation made of the footsteps I recorded while walking along the river and the sound of the river itself.