Details from Byzantine walls of Istanbul for GIRILMEZ! installation (No trespassing!), about the issue of identity between Europe and Turkey for the accession of Turkey into the European Union.
“Turkey has always been an anguished country, we have always been asking for questions about identity such as’ are we oriental? Are we Westerners? What are our roots? We are located, geographically and culturally, in the meanwhile in the East and West, and those that today we call problems of identity had always emerged among the Turks, in politics, in the Turkish culture, everything is based on the identity rhetoric”.
Orhan Pamuk
The large format posters installation was displayed on the the walking bank along the Giudecca canal in Venice during the Art Festival.
