I found myself suddenly in the middle of the river of life
Computer generated video and mix media, 26'', loop video with sound,Single channel 2K, 2023
The video progresses as an AI reads a poem generated by another AI, trained with the voice of a Turkish poet Nazım Hikmet.
“I suddenly
found myself
in the middle of the river of life,
All mirrors have turned towards me, echoing a voice within,
My body lies beneath the pure sun's rays,
A lifetime passes amid the heated plates,
My heart is the hero of the task, the square of the laborer…”
In the video, cyborg and robot-like characters exist within an imaginary world with a chaotic, ever-shifting metallic terrain. They constantly see themselves in a mirror rotating around them. This highly colorful and challenging environment is created to reflect a distorted version of today's world. The artwork aims to contemplate the positioning of the "artist figure" within such a world. It questions the concept of being an artist-worker in the ever-expanding data cloud created by social media and the internet, forming a new workforce.
“I suddenly found myself in the middle of the river of life,
All mirrors have turned towards me, echoing a voice within,
My body lies beneath the pure sun's rays,
A lifetime passes amid the heated plates,
My heart is the hero of the task, the square of the laborer…”
In the video, cyborg and robot-like characters exist within an imaginary world with a chaotic, ever-shifting metallic terrain. They constantly see themselves in a mirror rotating around them. This highly colorful and challenging environment is created to reflect a distorted version of today's world. The artwork aims to contemplate the positioning of the "artist figure" within such a world. It questions the concept of being an artist-worker in the ever-expanding data cloud created by social media and the internet, forming a new workforce.