Alaturka (2024) . Aligned (2024) . Gamma State (2024) . You Are My Sunshine and the Apple of My Eye (2024) . Tavaf (2024) . Alafranga (2023) . αI (2023) . βI (2023) . αVulva (2023) . βII (2023) . αIII (2023) . αIV (2023) . Vivarium (2022) . In Bed (2020) . Continuum (2019) . Singular (2018) .
In bed (London, 2021)
Analog Photography Prints, Wooden Frame with Clear Glass
In Bed explores the tension between stillness and imagined movement through a series of analogue photographs taken from a single vantage point while lying in bed. This work emerged during a period of mental immobility to capture the struggle between the safety of isolation and the yearning to re-engage with the outside world. Using a red filter, the images evoke the intensity of overwhelming emotions such as the heaviness of being stuck and the vividness of an imagined reality. The bed becomes both a sanctuary and a place without risk as well as a cage. From this confined perspective, the camera frames two visible windows where one offers a view of surrounding buildings and the other of the open sky. These windows act as portals to the outside reflecting the contrast between inner stillness and the dynamic world beyond.
As light streams into the room, it transforms by shifting colors, altering moods, and marking the passage of time. Several frames capture these subtle changes to embody the transition from day to night while the body remains motionless in bed and time slips by. Light and space continue to shape emotions and perceptions while creating connections to both physical and imagined realms. In Bed questions how we navigate moments of stagnation and how we imagine ourselves in motion while our bodies remain still. It investigates how our minds continue to churn during periods of inertia and how we reconcile knowing what is better for us yet choosing not to act on it. How can light and time simultaneously ground and transport us? The work serves as a meditation on the tension between safety and desire or stillness and action by capturing the quiet yet profound experience of being stuck while yearning to move.
