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CHASING AFTER SIGNOR CASTELLI

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CHASING AFTER SIGNOR CASTELLI
2020, ESRA NESIPOGULLARI, 150 cm x 150 cm include paper documentation
All that researching process started with a found luggage in my art studio. The luggage was locked what made me curious the most! After I opened the luggage with my friends' help, I was fascinated by the stuff that was inside. In a more poetic way to say, the curiosity cabinet was open to the public. Then I decided to convert those memories into an art installation that might help find the owners one day.
The installation consists of three main components: the luggage, the basis (metal structure used for the cars), and the documents. There are two types of documents: official documents mainly related to Signor Castelli's work and personal documents related to his family member. Touching someone's intimate memories, even just by coincidence, makes me feel very close to them. It also gives every viewer a chance to invent their own narratives about Signor Castelli and his family members.
RED CUBE
2014, Installation, Marseille/France,
2mx2mx2m
SOME WORDS ON MIGRATION AND WAITING
Exhibition strategies always have been an active tool for me to shape the viewers' understanding, especially if the theme requires a certain political understanding. Here what it was intended to convey is 'waiting' as a basic action that most of the migrants have gone through almost 99% of the time. Migration is more about waiting and less about being the actor of your own future. Although I did not take this process in a dramatic way, it might involve excited, normal, even fun moments, as well as it is mostly boring. The cube is structured in a way that only one person can stand, still uncomfortably, although 2m x 2m x 2m size cube is practically more than enough for one person. There was a sound work inside which consists of children's noise, calls for prayers, some vendor shouts and other voices possibly involved daily life in the street