Hüzün


  • Photographer
    SARP
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    2016
  • Technical Info
    150x200cm Hahnemühle Fine Art

My practice aims to redefine and challenge our relationship with the Islamic religion, evoking clashes of culture. Using a projector, I superimpose patterns scanned from Turkish baths and mosques onto figures illuminated in darkness. A simultaneous act of blasphemy and reconciliation, this gesture is meant to be as much a political critique as it is an attempt at introducing humanity into a culture where being human is not always permitted. The strong tradition of Aniconism in Muslim societies that seeks to prevent idolatry is still alive and well today. Depicting people has long been taboo because of it, and ornamental geometry and fractal art have partially developed as a result of this ban. In breaking this rule, by using the very product it has created, I hope to address the erasure of individual identity in Muslim societies, and offer a more vulnerable representation of Islam. Hüzün means sorrow in Turkish.

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