The series of 3D animations Island (2013), produced for the exhibition "Please do not disturb" at Istanbul Modern, examines the relationship between construction, material, and the subversion of spaces designed for leisure. The series presents parallel scenes of transformation and stasis. Viewers are shown an aerial, tilt-shift perspective of a swimming pool in an undeveloped, arid landscape, its basin being filled with a dark, liquid concrete that churns with a slow, viscous motion. In other scenes, the setting shifts to a dark, flooded construction site where objects resembling weathered mattresses float on still, black water. Rendered with the texture and color of concrete, these forms are simultaneously solid and buoyant, drifting aimlessly.
The series links the act of construction, the filling of the pool with concrete, to its desolate aftermath. The concrete mattresses function as "islands," solidified and discarded relics from the transformed recreational site.
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“Kerem Ozan Bayraktar shows a silent movement in his videos. In the slight motions stimulating minor perceptions, which we call imperceptible motions, sometimes the space discharges itself; the action processes itself on a white and empty space; and sometimes the speed makes itself felt with a slowness oscillating between moving and not moving, with minor motions through which the sounds drag us to perception. The velocity and slowness relations of the images reveal the ‘minor perceptions’.”
– Ali Akay, 2015
Minor Perceptions, Şekerbank Açık Ekran
Please do not disturb!, 2013, Istanbul Modern. Curated by Ertuğ Uçar, coordinator: Pelin Derviş