Stasis
- Dates Sep 7 - Oct 22, 2011
- Location PG Art, Istanbul
“Stasis”, consists of photographs that the artist creates using plastic models. The photographs that depict several vehicles produced throughout the 20th century, which extend the idea of photography as a record of the past, to be a pictorial language that marks the present without any reference to a specific time and space. The models that Bayraktar employs are transportation vehicles that are dysfunctional—disintegrated, defunct and dismantled. The objects that resemble a broken toy or a sculpture are subject to gravity and buoyancy. When isolated within the photograph, the artist describes, “everything vectoral is balanced; not only the visualization of physical forces but the relationship between horizontal and vertical axes and those as illusionary as perspective. At this point, one should speak of suspended “states” rather than objects.”