»... Architecture is not art alone; it is merely a reflection of conceptions of life or a portrait of systems of living. Architecture is environment, the stage on which our lives unfold.« [1]
Material specific installation of monumentalistically covered space and its possessing craft-objects have been designed for perceiving by the layers of the expressive experiences of being in Istanbul by not taken there. These crafted objects' performative qualities intentionally conducted to expose applied artist's trials of transforming a craft-object into an art-object with in the concept of dualism. The thematic perceptive scenario of an ancient city, derived from the concept of 'Romantism of the Ruins' and realized by creating a cocoon, which invites and accommodate the viewer with the surprising moving charactarilized costumes and their rhythmic sounds, which reminiscing of the monotonous qualities the noises of the city her self.
As an academic researcher he has been vigirously involved into improve his product's 'Total Quality', which is a notion of a combined qualities of aesthetic and physical criteria are both in his consideration. With this case, he is more concern about using this cultural inheritance of hand-crafted activity as medium to express his views about his home-town of Istanbul by following the phylosophical discorse of post-existancialist method of perceptions of the objects.
The existence of objects' presence and being in the space creates an inevitable relationships of interior/exterior, or even in-out values of the real/un-real of seeing /unseeing notions of the virtual realities. This emposed out casting of selected role-playing of the objects are accordingly relates to the scenario, which in this case it is 'Felt Istanbul'.
This atmospheric and virtually real space has been designed and produced by the material, which has been selected according to the same criteria of elevating the regional and traditional cultural values into the universal and contemporary levels by loosing, origins of their roots.
Text: Halil Selcuk Gürısık
[1]: Architecture As Space - How to Look at Architecture, Bruno Sevi, p32. ^
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