Please Do Wash (Not Only Your Face) But Also Your Soul

2021

Sabancı Üniversitesi Sakıp Sabancı Müzesi (Emirgan, İstanbul, Türkiye)

The video installation, which adapts the millennia of Istanbul’s relationship to water as a multi-dimensional weave, suggests that we glimpse the negotiation process between the city and its dwellers from this perspective. The narrative, investigating levels of conceptual realization, such as equality, justice, and the right to the city, aims to understand careless uses of urban water and the dimensions of its mid- and long-term impacts from the perspectives of a couple of disciplines such as history, medicine, archaeology, and geology, to name a few, within the frame of artistic creation. The installation focuses on contact points between water city life in light of water myths throughout the ages of the history of Istanbul, incorporating and aqueducts, hydraulic structures, water supply methods, water policies, hygiene, urban consciousness, and archaeological finds as referred by academicians and researchers. Intending to read our day via yesterday and touching on the sociological and religious significances of water in the societies where we once lived in Istanbul, a city which saw continuous settlement and that created many cultural strata, the work looks at what we have today.

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Please Do Wash (Not Only Your Face) But Also Your Soul

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2021

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7-channel video projected on site-specific columns | 6’ 30’’ (average duration for each video)

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