Respiration, 2019, animation, 5’24”
Screenings
- Nursaç Sargon
2020, Monitör İzmir
2020, Monitör İzmir
“Respiration” (2019) is a video gathering encyclopedic definitions and concepts of historical relations and effects of oxygen respiration on earth. Throughout the video artist’s text is read as voice-over. With this voice in the background, we see an unidentifiable topography evoking post-apocalyptic landscapes of post-Big Oxidation Event ice age, displaying movements of ambulances identified with emergency in urban life, trapped in repetition. With images of death, accident, and unavoidable continuity of uncertainty, the work creates a computer game atmosphere dur to the digital drawing method used by the artist. In his most recent works, Kerem takes the ambulance as an intersection of various modes of existences and processes in the history of earth such as death, energy, life, technology, and language. According to him, the ambulance is an element that complexifies questions on naturality of an artefact, inanimateness of an object, and the life-death relation. Its etymological root being ambulare in Latin, meaning to walk, to move, triggers images of the idea of “motion” which is inherent in its definition. Ambulance, being a motor vehicle, needing energy to move like living beings, uses fossil fuel as energy source that is combusted with oxygen in its engine system. And fossil fuels are remains of dead organisms, living beings.”
- Kevser Güler
2019 Rocks and winds, germs and words
ed. Kevser Güler, Sanatorium, Istanbul
2019 Rocks and winds, germs and words
ed. Kevser Güler, Sanatorium, Istanbul