a photograph

2017

FERRISITA blood tonic
kidney stone(s) of a mother
home-grown K3[Fe(CN)6] (Potassium Ferricyanide) single crystal(s)
popping candy (orange flavoured)
distilled water (Reagent grade)
broken piece(s) of a brown glass bottle
fragment(s) from the second last page of G. Bataille’s Visions of Excess
glass (chemical) pusher
handle of a black plastic bag
household bleach
apple vinegar
light (source)

At a single glance, mankind is devoted to deliberating what is visibly resonant in space. It matters very little what one (dis)regards on a dwarfed planar surface. Beguiled by the supplies of skyblueseas, the human eye is blind(ed). Towards the sun, a photograph is open to exposing bottomless pits from within all proportionately transparent face(t)s!

Discomposed around liquid forms of intelligence and in loving memory of AA, a photograph is a fortuitous, formless gut reaction. As an archaic, alternative/non-silver form of photography, it is experimentally sampled from the cyanotype process.

A blue monochrome is pinned to an off-white wall of palimpsest. Singlehandedly, this ‘cabinet card’ is not just a historical product of photography. Today, the marks of its indifference are about everything instantly photographic.

As a part of and apart from a photograph, an ensemble of make-believe corporealities and stuttering appearances promiscuously hovers above a supermassive black hole. Paper soaks up the excess of confocal light, blood tonic copulates with vinegar, a monocrystalline solid mass bursts out like a killjoy, shards of glass prick the injuries of candied tumuli, still water bleaches the plastic, kidney stones push and pull traces of chemical dust, and so on.

A small blue monochrome pinned to an off-white wall
a blue monochrome shot on iPhone 6

the photographs of a photograph

shot on FUJICHROME PROVIA 100F

Close-up of liquid and solid materials on the glass-topped table
Low-angle close-up of liquid, crystalline and solid materials on the glass-topped table
Close-up of reactive materials on the glass-topped table
Low-angle close-up of glass fragments and liquid on the table
Low-angle close-up of dark solid forms, liquid and red fragments on the glass-topped table
Close-up of blue, amber and translucent liquid forms on glass
Low-angle close-up of liquid and solid materials on glass
The glass-topped table seen from above at an angle

Blue monochrome
approximately 11 × 17 cm

Powder-coated metal table with glass top
65 × 82.5 × 126 cm

Liquid and solid materials
provided by the artist

a photograph installed at Abud Efendi Konağı

colony, 23 December 2017 – 3 February 2018
Abud Efendi Konağı, Istanbul

Curated by Kevser Güler, Derya Bayraktaroğlu, and Aylime Aslı Demir

Artists and participants: Yavuz Erkan, Ursula Mayer, Nilbar Güreş, Erinç Seymen & Uğur Engin Deniz, Daria Martin, Gökçe Yiğitel, Mary Maggic, İris Ergül, Katja Novitskova, Furkan Öztekin, Dynasty Handbag, Aykan Safoğlu, İz Öztat & Zişan, Kerem Ozan Bayraktar, Mariah Garnett, Umut Yıldırım, Yasemin Nur, and Let the Good Times Roll

a photograph installed at Schwules Museum

colony, 9 March – 15 April 2018
Schwules Museum, Berlin

Curated by Derya Bayraktaroğlu and Aylime Aslı Demir