Mesopotamian Dramaturgies / Dome
2009

Lentos Art Museum, Linz, Austria, 2009
Commissioned by:
The British School at Rome,Italy
Francesca Minini, Milan,Italy
The Henry Moore Foundation,UK
Vehbi Koc Foundation, Turkey
Dome is a video sculpture inspired by the dome structures of Rome, revisited in the Eastern context. It is constructed with identical plasma screen monitors hanging as a tile structure from a ceiling and facing downward, showing Turkish male youth posing in Western style but Eastern attitudes. It is an attempt to create the illusion of flying in heaven, but only with the aid of heavy construction equipment: a symbol of modernizing forces in Anatolia as straight roads are built as symbols of modernity, brutally slicing the old landscape and reshaping it.
- THE PORTRAIT OF SAKIP SABANCI
- Mesopotamian Dramaturgies / Sılsel
- fiction [ perfect ]
- fiction [ perfect performed ]
- fiction [ jarse ]
- fiction [ forever ]
- Mesopotamian Dramaturgies / Mayhem
- Beggars
- Mesopotamian Dramaturgies / Su
- Mesopotamian Dramaturgies / Column
- Mesopotamian Dramaturgies / English As A Second Language
- Mesopotamian Dramaturgies / Frame
- Mesopotamian Dramaturgies / Journey to the Moon (sculpture)
- Mesopotamian Dramaturgies / Journey to the Moon (installation version)
- Mesopotamian Dramaturgies / Journey to the Moon (short version)
- Mesopotamian Dramaturgies / Journey to the Moon (stills)
- Mesopotamian Dramaturgies / Pursuit of Happiness
- Mesopotamian Dramaturgies / Strange Space (installation version)
- Mesopotamian Dramaturgies / Strange Space (single screen version)
- Mesopotamian Dramaturgies / Strange Space (still)
- Mesopotamian Dramaturgies / The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
- fff
- Turkish Delight
- Double Roasted
- Circle of Friends
- Paradise
- Testimony
- Stefan's Room
- Küba
- Twelve
- Animated Words
- It's a Vicious Circle
- 1+1=1
- 99 Names - single screen version
- 99 Names - installation version
- The 4 Seasons of Veronica Read
- Never My Soul - single screen version
- Never My Soul - installation version
- Martin is Asleep
- Women Who Wear Wigs
- kutluğ ataman's semiha b. unplugged