Memory emerges from a space where neither the body nor the landscape is required to take on a defined form. It exists in a realm where dissolution is not a failure but a form of resistance. In this piece, the fractured, torn and layered visual language becomes a metaphor for the psychological fragmentation experienced by individuals within the socio political fabric of contemporary Turkey.
Rather than depicting trauma as an absence, Memory frames it as a generative rupture. The sharp contrasts and raw topographies suggest that identity and memory are not static but continually reshaped through pressure, rupture and reemergence. The composition resists closure, holding space for unresolved narratives and fluid forms of being.
What appears as a scar is, in fact, a trace of becoming. The work insists that survival need not conform to coherence and that the fragments we carry are also the maps of our return.