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Rescued Landscape

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“Rescued Landscape” 2019, Site-specific installation, Toptepe/Nusaybin

 178 x 42 cm, Hard plastic portable pool

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As a result of the economic market exchange between the two countries, vital supplies coming from Syria meet the basic needs of the people on the other side of the border. As a result of the fact that the materials coming through the market create two different vital biases, it offers a different perspective on the issue. The most striking object among the countless materials coming from Syria is the inflatable pool produced to meet the basic swimming needs of landlocked cities. The inflatable pool has also become an object preferred by people fleeing the war, such as the inflatable boats they desperately use. The pool object, which is evaluated through two different uses, examines the instrumentalization of the pool object for people's hope for a new life on the one hand, and the moment when children have fun on the other. The impermanence of the plastic pool material and its vulnerability to impact can render it and the lives in it vulnerable. Like the plastic material here, the value of human life is devalued and left precarious.

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