Trees with attached neon lamps illuminating the surroundings indicate that parts of parques and gardens turn into realms that are losing their uncanny and mysterious atmosphere.
These realms, however, are undefinable, because they emerge amidst public areas and neither belong to the private nor to public life. The idea of creating these kind of realms arises from a mind that is conditioned by traditionally and religiously determined social gender roles that dictate the individual to shut oneself off from the exterior. In doing so, everything that doesn’t belong to us or to our family represents a potential danger...
The concealment of the body is a similar issue. But even though the body is supposed to be isolated from all gazes, it is still capable of disrupting the harmony with its ability to seduce and of transgressing borders.
By transfering the body - nude or concealed - to a different geography and cultural structure, detours and disruptions in thinking arise from it. Nude in the Mirror is a rough translation of the body as object of the gaze, distorted by these detours and displacements. This body is not the site, but the bearer of desire.
Text by: Aydan Murtezaoğlu
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