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A world Inhabited by beings, commissioned by The Július Koller Society, Between Earthly Beings and the Unknown Cosmic World: The Continent, curated by Canan Batur, photo: Leontína Berková and Timuçin Işıdı t. watercolor, gouache and gold on folded paper s. 70 x 100
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The greatness of history leads us to imagine the Mediterranean as something much larger than it is in reality, though it is almost absurdly small, says historian Lawrence Durrell. The basin formed by the compression of the Tethys Ocean has been transformed by human hands into a delicate fault line, floating within the fluidity of losses. The uplifted parts of the sea bed have created the highest mountains, filling the land with rare stones, mines and metal ores, forming a coastal strip so vast that, when unfolded like the intestines of a blue whale, it surpasses the circumference of the globe, imposing the tyranny of distances. In my painting titled “A world inhabited by Beings,” I described our personal lives, which we filed in a bureaucratic paper while crossing the distances by comparing it to the tectonic disintegration movements that shaped the Mediterranean.
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installation view @ The Július Koller Society
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