Installation view from the exhibition Twister, single channel video projection (30”), stitch and cutting on fabric 200x 300 cm, nGbK, Berlin 2022 Documentation: ©Emre Birişmen, Berlin 2022
Map Of Neither (2022- Ongoing)
Supported by Senate Department for Culture and Europe in 2021.
Map Of Neither focuses on the undefined purgatory zone between the words “emigrant” and “immigrant” and reveals the stories of the hidden details and present a neutral space with individuals. It is an ongoing production of a video installation created with animation loops. The roots of this project go back to Atlas Of Interruptions, which was produced in Jerusalem in 2014. The site-specific work as part of Jerusalem Show VII was the observation of alienation in the homelands and restrictions on mobility in the east Mediterranean. I installed the drawings I made in Istanbul into Hamam Al Shifa in Jerusalem. Influenced by the Atlas of Interruptions, Map of Neither started as a research project on my personal production. It is based on a counter-mapping method which discovers the invisible and magnifies the stories in the background. It proceeds by defining all living and non-living beings as “individuals” and brings together the singular stories of beings. Video work created by the animation of the details cropped from my drawings, works like a topological map, in which all details have relations while the original gathering surface is no longer there. The installation is produced with layers of surfaces that both blend and fragment the heterogeneous structure of the map. Map Of Neither aims to invalidate predictions and all possible outcomes and realizes itself within deterritorialization.
Working for the exhibition Twister, nGbK, Berlin, 2023, video by Seçil Yersel
Map Of Neither, animation loop 30”, 2023
Map Of Neither, animation loop 26”, 2023
Map Of Neither, work in progress, view from the studio, Berlin, 2023
Map Of Neither, installation detail from the exhibition Beyond Home, A Feminist Deconstruction, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, 2023
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