Installation, mixed media; white cloth, rust
In
this work I used the tin plate that are used for the inside cover of coffins.
I made two basins filled with water I first put the white texture of coffin
and placed two tin plates in these textures. After these tin plates get rusted,
the color of rust sticks on the white texture in the form of the plates. The
water in basins evaporates as time passes. After the white texture dries I take
the tin plates and white texture out and I exhibit white texture with a rusty
pattern of coffin on it.
For me, this work is the exhibition of the last phase of a process like a two-dimensional
still image of the end product of a process. It is the only remaining trace
of a process – a coda of a narrative that continuously refers to its preceding
lines. Indeed this work is made up of the remnants of an ephemeral process of
evanescence or evaporation. The exhibition place is also important in the sense
that one should pass through this room-like passage in order to enter or leave
the building. This passage is like a pause perhaps in-between life and death
and it can be experienced in passage.
05/99 “Passage”, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
