An Icon

"An Icon" was staged for the first time at the Yapı Kredi Kâzım Taşkent Art Gallery in 2010 and accompanied “Çaylak Sokak” at Arter in 2019 as part of “What Time Is It?”, one of the inaugural exhibitions of Arter’s new building in Dolapdere. In this work, the family house of Sarkis appears as a large-scale architectural model coated with gold foil, consisting of empty spaces. Two more elements complete the installation: industrial black fans hanging above our heads, blowing with a roar like airplane propellers, and a sentence written on the wall, evoking in neon-blue a shared image of war: “Carpets hung like thick curtains on the windows at night protected the lit-up house from the planes.”