I have made a video collage documenting some of my site-specific installations in ruined cave houses in the village of Ibrahimpasa, Cappadocia, Turkey, made in March 2009 while an artist in residence at the Babayan Culture House. For more information on this project, click here.
For my final installation at BCH, I have gathered up all the materials that I’ve worked with over the past month here. Over the last few days, I retrieved and installed the various bits and pieces in the upper cave house room. I wanted to create a kind of contemporary Sacra Conversazione, the Sacred Conversation [...]
In honour of the Spring Equinox, I decided to burn Memento Mori V, the installation in the upper ruined cave house. This piece was created entirely out of found objects: a wooden box from Shah Dede’s, a skull from the valley, bones from the house’s sod roof, stones from a corner of the room itself, [...]
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One of the ruined cave houses next to BCH was owned by a man – Shah Dede (King Grandad) or Hadj Ibrahim (Hadj meaning one who has gone to Mecca) was his name – who had made a pilgrimage to Mecca during the last years of his life. As a result, he was allowed to [...]
I am working on a small installation in the abandoned cave house next to the Babayan Culture House in Ibrahimpasa, Cappadocia, Turkey, where I am Artist in Residence for the month of March 2009. In this room a previous artist in residence, Stefan Chinov, had installed some cast concrete doors. My project, an intervention into [...]
Ruination I was originally trained as a printmaker and spent many years making etchings. Gradually, I began to do photo-etching and from there moved into photography and digital image-making. My photographic practice is based on a more general aesthetic and philosophical interest in issues of temporality and mortality and the various fantasies of human subjectivity [...]
This kind of work has a historical pedigree: it’s known as Memento Mori, a Latin phrase meaning remember that you are mortal and you too will die. This injunction appears visually in the genre of western painting known as Vanitas Still Life and in Medieval and Renaissance Christian art. The idea here is that one [...]
