WORDS AND THINGS

The events that take place in the world we live in and the relationships we establish with these events form our memory. Our memory is not a structure that we create individually only by ourselves. The relationships we establish with nature as a whole and with other people are all influential in the formation of our memory. Therefore, our memory cannot be considered independent of economic, social, cultural, and political transformations. The hands that make up the work consist of the “Gestuno” alphabet, which is an international sign language. The work questions the effects of communication models on memory parameters in the context of time and space. The work, which emerges as an expression of collective memory, places the viewer at the center of the work and presents sign language as a phenomenon to the perceptual consciousness of the audience. The chair image in the work expresses the representation of the individual in time and space. And the work is based on a few questions aimed at stimulating collective memory. “Can we find the events we witnessed in images again?” or “Is it possible to revive our memory with images?” Etc. The work tries to question “collective memory” based on these questions.