Yaprak Kırdök, Time Is On My Side, 2016, Print Installation
The subject matter of the frames that I found are people.
The printed, similarly set up and framed photographs were collected from different countries. The shared elements here are an aesthetic and finiteness. All of the photographs have seen the expiration of their micro- history and found their ways to flea markets and second-hand booksellers. These photographs that used to have something to tell, a history, their stories end when someone else takes them over. It is the end of a micro- history. The transformation of these photo-narratives into a single layer of linoleum print, tells a collective story of finiteness rather than their own. There is no way for us to know these people and their stories. They become part of a past that can never be romanticised. In this series, the ones with ended histories come together, the photographs are recreated as prints, allowing new and different readings.
Accompanying the works are Emrah Serdan’s text Ancient Civilizations, and a book consisting of these works and the article.