Installation, mixed media; moldy bread, white cloth, label of bread.
This work consists
of moldy bread, label of bread and white texture that is especially used for
covering the dead body. White texture and the forms that resemble to coffin
are the elements that I used in a series of works. They can be viewed as objects
that represent a process. In this work, I separated the moldy bread into forty
colors and shaped each of groups of moldy bread in the form of a small coffin.
Bread is fundamental for nutrition in many societies. Its process of production
entails sun, earth, water, and air.
Forty different colored small coffins were placed on white texture in eight
rows, each row having five coffins and starting with the lightest color and
ending with the darkest one. These colors show a continuous process of change.
In Islam, the number of forty is believed to refer to the forty day long duration
of the dissolving of a body into soil or ground. The reason that I came with
this idea is the result of the way I used to separate the bread into its colors
because with the help of rolling pin I depleted or deformed the bread so much.
On each coffin there was a bread label, a proof of its existence. Moldy bread
installed on white texture in the form of a coffin seems to be a representation
of death, but it is indeed a living organism that continuously transforms itself.
05/99 Young Action IV, “Dead Or Alive”,
Tuyap Exhibition Center, Istanbul, Turkey -c
