Games Games Games

Volkan Aslan frequently appropriates found objects and images and incorporates them into his own works. For the installation "Games Games Games", produced for the 13th Istanbul Biennial, the artist distorts the five interlocking rings of the Olympics and reinterprets it in neon. Approaching neon as a material as easily shaped as children’s play-dough, Aslan produced "Games Games Games" at the time when Istanbul controversially aspired to host the international sporting event, and conceived it as a critique of the empty ideas of global unity across continents and of world peace as presented by the Olympics.