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"Memento" (Del
lat. remember) lists a series
of experiences, feelings and impressions that permeated my Western’s
soul during the artist in residence
at the Foundation Babayan House, Ibrahimpasa, a small village in Capadocia,
considered World Heritage by UNESCO.
This project began as part of the collection "Essence",
but soon acquired a new dimension, given the closely between their
culture and mine.
Consider what happened in the development of the painting "Durmus'un
karisi”.
Durmus is a beloved character in the village, whom I could say that
portrait. Once it was finished came an unexpected and seemingly absurd
question: "Who portrait?"
Evidence of similar said "Durmus,
of course!”, it’s mean I had commemorated an alive
resident in Cappadocia, but could
hear other voices whispering "It
could well be your paternal grandfather, the same brown and tiresome
complexion, the same furrows of years sun and wind ...".
There was more, an element, a false-colour, "blue
eyes and those who escaped from memory", one of the truths
that do not include the alleged portrait, "clear and lively eyes
from maternal grandfather!", then I also commemorated the dead
were residents in my memory. "And the gap that emerges to the left of Durmus,
who belongs?" The Durmus’s
wife, a woman not captured by the public eye but present in the soul
of the house and the village, a reverberation of my ancestors. Thus,
living and dead were being discussed in the material, presence and
absence toys in memory, we were moving of "Essence" to engage
in "Memento."
The players were no longer anonymous, have name, not only the culture
baptized, but the unconscious appropriates them.
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