"You Have a Place Above My Head” Series, 2019 - on going

Using contemporary terminology, the series “You Have a Place Above My Head,” which the artist has been developing since 2019, explores the potential sexuality of everyday objects discovered during walks in Istanbul. The series has been showcased in prominent platforms including Vogue Italia Online (2020), Altiba-9 International Art Magazine, ArtsLibris Fair Barcelona (2021), ARCOMadrid, ARCOLisboa, GUP Magazine Fresh Eyes Talent Book, the Rotterdam Kahmann Gallery’s “Promising Photographic Artists” group show, and the “The Weight of the World” group show at Kasa Gallery, curated by Misal Adnan Yıldız. In 2022, it was featured in the Nilufer Municipality group show “Look Up, the Starry Horizons of a Defined Geography,” curated by Yekhan Pınarlıgil, and participated in the Republic of Albania International FOKUS awards competition. As of 2024, some images from the series have been selected by curator Çağla İlk for the visual campaign of Munich Kammerspiele.

"Genre painting, in the literature of art history, is defined as productions realized on canvas with paint, presenting everyday life shaped in domestic settings to the viewer. The series departs from the tradition of assigning female figures in genre painting to specific spaces or roles. It visually questions the transformation of the position on the head, which symbolizes the Turkish cultural value of respect and tolerance, into objects of femininity within the domestic space in Turkey, by adopting the visual theme of the saying 'You have a place above my head'. The artist uses random objects that he has found on walks around the city as vehicles to transport his observations. Undefined objects found on the street, a public space, in the context of a home acquire a defined sexuality thus explaining the duality arising from the juxtaposition of linguistics-objects-space. By placing the planned creation of the traditional in the realm of flow, it metaphorically presents the idea of defined sexual identities being in flux to the viewer and invites contemplation upon objects."

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