Installation, mixed media; moldy bread, wood
‘The Bread Door’ has a special meaning as idiom in Turkish referring
to the place where one works for his/her living. This work was installed in
a white room. I made a small size wooden door and installed on the floor next
to a wall and from the door, moldy bread gushes out. I used the moldy bread
as pigment in this work. What is behind the door is not defined. So I see this
work in a perspective that moldy bread was trying to find a place to gush out
in order to breathe. The door is small in comparison to the room, but the smell
of the moldy bread captures the whole room and the work may be taken as enlarging
itself with its smell.
The title of the work refers to survival of human being. Indeed the direct reference
of the materials, bread and door, to an idiom brings about a sense of the depiction
of that idiom. But the heavy smell of moldy bread and the use of bread as molded
are both transforming the work and taking it out of this direct reference. Moldy
bread may lead one to speak about the process of life for moldy bread is under
a continuous process of change as a result of living organisms constituting
it. In this sense, the work is the simulation of life of men. For me, this work
is also the representation of my own life as an artist whose “bread door’
is that work.
06/99 International, Europe
and Mediterranean Young Artist Biennial, 'The
Bread Door', Rome, Italy -c-
