Houses away from Home

Houses away from HOME
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Houses away from HOME is an installation made of a group of photos ( total 18) : 5 streets photos taken in Palermo in 1998 ( the city where the artist was born), 2 panoramic photos were taken back in 2003 during her very first trip to Istanbul ( Sultan Ahmet and a random house ), 11 photos of NY taken in 2001 ( the year she arrived to NY ), 2 metaphoric images of NYC ( postcard of Lady Liberty and THE END).
Each wall is showing and grouping the 3 cities where the artist lived ( Palermo- Istanbul- NY) and still lives: the past that re-connects to the present and her current search and hope of reconnection to a place ( HOME) / a world/ a society that is currently disconnected.
The rainbow- colored thread highlights the perimeter of area/ room/ house-oracle where at the center of it, stays a neoclassical capital (= historical/ artistic heritage) that holds a pending black wool yarn ( = our disconnected society) and a little card emphasizes the following words in turkish: DIKKAT KIRILIR.

Size of the room could change based on exhibitions needs and dispositions.

The 11 small photos ( NY ) all have the same measure: 15 cm x 10 cm each/ mounted in couple on a 30 cm x 21 cm paper board.
“ Lady Liberty’ postcard : 16 cm x 11.5 cm
“THE END” card : 18.5 cm x 14.5 cm
The 5 photos ( Palermo) are all mounted on 30 cm x 21 cm paper board,
​The 2 Istanbul photos are mounted on a 30 cm x 21 cm paper board.
The neoclassical capital: ( plaster) : 40 cm approx. x 25 cm corner decoration ( plaster) : 40 cm approx. by 30 cm
10 meters of wool rainbowed yarn.
1 black yarn
Dikkat Kirilir: 15 cm x 21 cm