Karmasıklık/Vielschichtigkeit is only one series out of a current body of work in progress on my personal memory. It does not pretend to be a finished piece or an absolute truth. It is far away from remembering facts nostalgically as in historical, community or family based memory. It openly gives the obvserver the opportunity to discover, associate and imagine what the connections among the photographs and different layers might be, where borders or fusions in society naturally occur. The photographs let the observer remember things from my past into his own present creatively.
The first photographs of this series emerged as a social observation looking through reflecting surfaces and shop windows. However I progressed photographing with a clear concept about society layers and complexity.
Istanbul consists of countless multiple layers, areas, names, ideas, societies and cultures all merging into each other once in a while. You lose track of which layer you’re looking at, you can’t keep the overview and struggle with finding the borders among the layers. People try to coexist with totally different ideas of life, beliefs, ethnologies, nationalities and sexualities.
