Kıskananlar çatlasın / Let the jealous ones burst

Visual decoration is used in order to share common cultural identity. The ironic thing is that the trucks which destroy so much of nature have their backpanels decorated with something that is getting lost along the roads. Whereas 10-15 years ago one could stil find a wide variaton of wild flowers along the road, nowadays one can often find the favorite Tulip painted on the back of many trucks and see no real flowers anymore.The pride of the driver of his truck shows by the care taken to decorate the truck with such an unlikely symbol of beauty for a truck. Is it a decoy to attract the evil eye? Because many of the trucks have writings like “Kiskanan Çatlasin” meaning as much as “Let the jealous one burst”.

The installation called “ These are not Tulips” is a pun on the painting “This is not a pipe” by Magritte.

Expectation / Beklenti

Expectation is an installation that consists of tulipbulbs laid out in the form of a tulipdrawing. The work relates to the difference of what we really see and what we see in our imagination because of our strong longing for beauty or pleasure.