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Immigration (2002)

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Paper-clay, stainless steel desk, sound.

Dimensions:  Variable. Stainless Steel table  5′ X 4′ X 2′   (152 cm X 121 cm X 61 cm)

Seeking ways to stay in the United States after my studies, I started obsessively Xeroxing the…

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Pst… Pst… (2003)

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Single channel video of a 5 second loop, motion sensors.

A woman, on the streets of any large city in Turkey, is surely to hear remarks of appreciation,
occasionally favorable and once in a while disgraceful. Accustomed to the…

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Unknown (2003)

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Drywall, aluminum studs, door, motor, computer.

Dimensions: 24’ X 5’ X 5’   (730 cm X 153 cm X 153 cm)

A tower was constructed using drywall and aluminum studs. Concealed in the gallery space,
perceived as a column, viewers were…

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Liminal (2007)

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A  coffin, wooden bridge, hidden camera, screen, computer.

Dimensions:  6’ 1/2” X 7’ 1/2” X 3’   (201 cm X 231 cm X 90 cm)

A narrow, rickety, wooden bridge leads to a coffin.  Viewers walk up the plank of…

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Gentriwhy? (2008)

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Arcade Skill Crane and stuffed sculptures of The HSBC Bank, McCarren Pool and the Domino Sugar Factory of Brooklyn.

Dimensions: 6’ 1/2” X 3’2” X 2’2”   (200 cm X 98 cm X 68 cm)

The neighborhood that I live…

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Detritus Forest (2008)

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An upside down forest from discarded Christmas trees found on the streets of Brooklyn, New York.

Dimensions:  Variable. 28 Retail Size Christmas Trees were exhibited at Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery.

On Christmas Eve 2007, I picked up two discarded Christmas…

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EU (2008)

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A red suitcase (color of the Turkish flag) full of silk screened cotton puppet emigrants, sound.

Dimensions: Variable

For EU I silk-screened portraits of 27 Turkish citizens onto cotton puppets. Their faces are only sketched out in a black outline,…

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