Central Saint Martins MA Fine Art Interim Show 2010

Donetsk, 2008

“Donetsk” is a city situated in eastern Ukraine. More specifically, “Donetsk” is the blended result of my impressions about an era, a country, a city, a people that I experienced through my significant other.

Gözde Türkkan, “Donetsk”, Series of 16 photographic sequences, 2008

baktim sana dönüp baktigimda baktin mi bana / I was looking to see if you were looking back at me to see me looking back at you, 2008

"baktım sana dönüp baktığımda baktın mı bana / I was looking to see if you were looking at me to see me looking back at you" Book Photos

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This book embodies some of my deepest fears, complexes, desires and stimulations. These are carried to a next level as I projected them into this physical fetishistic object and I now declare my independence from them.

And I sated.


Gözde Türkkan, baktim sana dönüp baktigimda baktin mi bana / I was looking to see if you were looking at me to see me looking back at you, 29x36cm, 104 pages, 2008

Lux et Veritas, 2006

That feeling comes with the moment’s light.
And the moment is unique. So the light is. And its uniqueness makes it extraordinary.
But existence is also a succession of moments, which brings about a feeling of ordinariness.
So is the moment the stillness of existence and light.
Absence and nothingness arise from this stillness of the moment’s light.
Light is the truth of existence and the truth is silent.
 
This is about the duality of existence and light.
This is how I feel, how I think of things. This is nothing.


Gözde Türkkan, Lux et Veritas, 10 pairs of photographs, 2006

Dear Diary, 2004

Gözde Türkkan, Dear Diary, 30 photographs, 2004

Home, 2008

"Home" book photos

Gözde Türkkan, Home, 15x21cm, 32 pages, 2008

Sükran / Gratitude, 2004-2008

Gözde Türkkan, Şükran / Gratitude, 198 Polaroid, 2004-2008

I have not much to say.
I did not take the last photograph.
If I did, I would have been a different person now; or maybe I would have taken it if I were a different person.
That nonexistent photograph belongs to one of my “decisive moments”.

The last photograph is absent, the same way she is. Maybe that’s the whole story.

Tershane “Taze beyinlere ihtiyacimiz var” Exhibition, 2008

Gözde Türkkan, Self-Portrait, 300x120cm, 2008

Emplacement at Tershane Exhibition

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