Bedside Books

The Secret (occult) Sciences Treasure, which is a 2-volume compilation book, consists of many superstitious formulas that were brought together after the anonymous Islamic superstitions were circulated in Turkey. Methods of healing accompanied by prayers, finding a suitable spouse, secrets of happy marriage, finding treasure so the prosperity, character analysis from body forms and astrological forecasts categorized according to the Hijra calendar are some of the contents of the book. 

The compilation, which is the magazine of theology and even the fake opium of the society, consists of a lot of nonsense. In Turkey after the closure of dervish lodges and zawiyas (religious schools and gathering places) in the founding years of the republic, booklets was published to keep the people connected to religious superstitions and to strengthen the bigoted dynamic in the social structure of the society. 

My work as a satire on the content of the book, in fact, deals with the transformation of many items that we exclude in daily life and find disgusting into different rituals with the help of prayers. It is surprising to see many things that people exclude and defecate are among the materials used in making magic or talisman. People’s acceptance of an irrational method with the materials they use to taste the sense of ownership, because they think it prosper; the feeling of having the ability to direct one's life after a subjective experience with a distant-foreigner is undoubtedly directly related to the belief in the concept of creator. The nails are cut, put in the bag, buried in the ground in the moonlight, the hair is cut, sewn under the pillow, the things that are excluded and defecated with practices such as the menstrual blood are fed without noticing it heals, gives happiness and peace.

a review by Furkan Öztekin in TR https://sanatkritik.com/yazilar/kitap-kenarlarina-gizlenen-hikayeler/