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Trilogy of the Deserted City - Issız Kent Üçlemesi
Trilogy of the Deserted City is an experiment dedicated to problematize the consequences of the internal migration that Istanbul received, transforming it into one of the most crowded cities in the world over a short span of fifty years, through the city’s “desertedness.”
The aim is not to be relieved of a sense of guilt evoked by the city by putting pieces of unorganized data next to each other. It is to call upon the souls that have remained hanging in its ominous history, disabling the unconscious, confronting the ab-normalities, revealing the repressed through skepticism.
In the three consecutive layers of fake investigation and misdirection, the “desertedness” that is sought, followed, watched, evidenced, researched, interrogated is internalized. Thus the exaggerated urban metaphor becomes a game through a one-person search against the city and collective memory by the individual.
This book was produced in parallel to Tayfun Serttaş’s exhibition at Studio-X Istanbul, Cemetery of Architects,
January 31-March 28, 2014.
Trilogy of the Deserted City - Issız Kent Üçlemesi
Trilogy of the Deserted City is an experiment dedicated to problematize the consequences of the internal migration that Istanbul received, transforming it into one of the most crowded cities in the world over a short span of fifty years, through the city’s “desertedness.”
The aim is not to be relieved of a sense of guilt evoked by the city by putting pieces of unorganized data next to each other. It is to call upon the souls that have remained hanging in its ominous history, disabling the unconscious, confronting the ab-normalities, revealing the repressed through skepticism.
In the three consecutive layers of fake investigation and misdirection, the “desertedness” that is sought, followed, watched, evidenced, researched, interrogated is internalized. Thus the exaggerated urban metaphor becomes a game through a one-person search against the city and collective memory by the individual.
This book was produced in parallel to Tayfun Serttaş’s exhibition at Studio-X Istanbul, Cemetery of Architects,
January 31-March 28, 2014.