Resistance 1

Şakir Gökçebağ creates new structures through dismantling, multiplying and combining everyday objects in his photographs, sculptures and installations. The artist frequently uses ordinary items such as belts, clothes pegs, brooms, buckets, umbrellas, carpets, shoes and even toilet paper rolls in his pieces, humorously suggesting reorganisations of the relationship between people and things, as well as of how we perceive objects. Gökçebağ’s practice is based on the repetition and transformation of selected items, reinterpreting objects through visual rhythms and striking arrangements by detaching them from their original functions.

Featuring an amorphous structure of interconnected electrical sockets, "Resistance 1" highlights the ways Gökçebağ handles and transforms ready-made objects in his oeuvre. This strange form with various heads and limbs, formed by many sockets fitted together like Lego bricks, eventually leads to a light bulb and provides it with electricity and light, although through an elongated path. Even though the primary qualities and function of the object used in "Resistance 1" are not completely lost, through repetition and the artist’s playful manipulation, they assume a surprising and unfamiliar form.