SONGÜL KARAKOÇ

UNTITLED

Consisting of a “flawed” video loop of six different actions drawn from ordinary moments of daily life, the work emerges from my questioning of communication, based on observations of interpersonal relationships.

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Within these observations, I noticed how people develop alternative ways of communicating when direct communication fails, and how these methods gradually become systematic through repeated use of certain objects and actions. While the object enables the action to take place, the action itself transforms into a tool.

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I cut out these actions — shaped over time and repeated in specific situations — and revisit them from an external perspective.

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Alternative communication tools, reflex-based escape points, moments of finding one’s tongue and speechlessness, body language, camouflage…