Sarp Kerem Yavuz

+1(440)7894376 sarpyavuz@gmail.com http://sarp.info

Maallah
How can I photograph the de-secularization of my country?

Much like the clouds of teargas that spread their venom throughout countless cities, including
the streets of Istanbul where I grew up, a reinterpreted Islam has been spreading throughout
Turkey over the past decade, carrying with it institutionalized sexism, homophobia, violence and
corruption.

For Masallah, I scan patterns from tourism publications put out by the Turkish government, as
well as designs from the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia, and superimpose them onto figures in
darkness using a projector. Depicting the human is taboo in Islamic culture, and ornamental
geometry and fractal art have developed as a result of this ban. I am interested in breaking this
rule, using the product of the rule itself.

I allow the light of the projector to behead, castrate, dehumanize, censor, objectify and isolate
the body, attempting to mimic the politicized religions impact on society.

Masallah uses the same iconography the Turkish government used to reinvent itself as the
second-coming of the Ottoman Empire, to talk about the erasure of individual identity in Turkey.
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Islam (2014)
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*Hicri is comprised of 7 individual panels of 120 x 90cm (47,24 x 35,43 inches)
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