Not Easy...
Not Easy to Save the World in 90 Days. Young Turkish artists at Tanas Berlin; Photo Tour.
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Normalizasyon. 2009
C- Print, mounted on Alu-Dibond
95 x 130 cm
The photo is not staged. A family watches as a construction worker excavates a pit in the middle of its living room.
"In his photographs and video works the tension between tradition and modernity is the constitutive theme. Besides the absurdity on the surface, these compositions carry references to and a playful crititique of restrictive bounds."
(From: Erden Kosova, Cengiz Tekin. In: In den Schluchten des Balkan, Kassel 2003. Quoted from the booklet of the exhibition)
© Photo: Cengiz Tekin
Repro: Haupt & Binder
Not Easy to Save the World in 90 Days. Young Turkish artists at Tanas Berlin; Photo Tour.