The artist, featured in the 2013 Southern Panoramas show, discusses his work as a project for sharing a personal history, and on the other hand looking at his past since childhood. He claims he is trying to answer the following question: how to look at oneself through collectively produced images. Hence the two-pronged goal of his work: looking into his past while revealing how this act of looking takes place. The confessional tone coexists with a reflexive dimension brought about by mass media images. These are displaced images that correspond to the displacement the artist feels in different situations in his life. He tells of how his attempt to reconnect with imagery from his childhood and youth gave him the feeling of being farther and farther from himself. He also addresses how political power is built upon memory in Turkey, based on different versions of history pitted against one another.
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