UNTITLED

installation in public space
neon, metal
110 x 87 cm
Beyoglu, Istanbul
2009
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I copied and reconstructed a reappearing graffiti in Beyoglu, Istanbul as a neon sign. Later I installed it near the tag – zones. The figure looks like an „s“ and resembles a pile of shit.

WILLING SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF

intervention
Hinterconti, Hamburg
2009
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The entrance door of Hinterconti has been completely covered with stickers in the past years. The door becomes a badge to a certain group of people and constitutes an identity for the space. I reproduced the door without the stickers and exchanged it with the old door. On the floor of the exhibition space I put a pile of crinkled stickers. Entering the room, the viewer assumes that my work simply consists of cleaning the door from the stickers.

COLUMN NR. : I

Helmut Heiss / Cäcilia Brown
air mattress, tape, stone
Olympos, Turkey
2009
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Four silver colored air mattresses are connected in such away to resemble the form of an antique column. A stone fixed to the bottom guarantees vertical floating. The finished sculpture now floats in the Mediterranean Sea.