Artist: Caner Şengünalp
Museum: Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art (Istanbul, Turkey)
Technique: Sculpture
Istanbul is the home of the Istanbulites, their universe and a true cosmos. Theobelisks are the historical symbols of Istanbul’s urban memory; they are thecultural guards of the city reaching out to the skies... The project is addressed inthis context as the city’s roots and identities are fragmented and altered everyday; as the city’s memories are constantly emptied out and reshaped, Istanbul isrepresented in the form of an “obelisk”, and the individual who can no longer takeshelter in it is forced to leave. Home is where a person lives in comfort and trust,a place where one can sleep peacefully. In the composition, the image of thepillow carried under the figure’s seat symbolizes this desire and longing for sucha place. As Gaston Bachelard expresses in “Poetics of Space”;“Are the towers ofour souls razed for all time? Are we to remain, to quote Gerard de Nerval’s famousline, beings whose “towers have been destroyed”?
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