Can an answer be surprising?

2017-2019; video installation, 22 minutes; fiberglass and paint, 150x240cm
Commissioned by BAHAR, the Istanbul off-site project of the 13th Sharjah Biennial.

“Can an answer be surprising?” consists of a video projection of texts, shapes and colors on two semi-elliptical surfaces. At times it appears to host two sides of a dialogue; other times stutters, stand-alone letters, and monologues come into sight. The video regards dialogue as an encounter, or at least as a possibility of encounter. The work sets on a path that contemplates on the notions of readiness and receptivity. Without knowing where the conversation will eventually lead, the emphasis is on momentary utterances, on correlations, on concurrence and discord that flow in the betweens.

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