Thin Air
July 2023 - June 2024
ANKARA, İZMİR, İSTANBUL
"Memories carry meanings that only a certain reading can provide. Like notes that remain as spots without a key." (Bilge Karasu - Ode to Pomegranate and Fig)
The photographs in the Thin Air project bespeak of a time that began in 2018 at a construction site and continued through disasters such as forest fires, floods and earthquakes, while encapsulating the illnesses, separations and losses endured by the photographer and his relatives. including matters and places such as a hole -if a person passes through, it is believed that they are pure in heart, feet of an extinct volcano, a lake, a forest on the verge of destruction, a horse, a child's summer vacation with her mother and a grandmother's way of embracing her own tribulations… create an archive where such different moments and occurrences intertwine within each other.
Through the methods he has developed in form, technique, and material, Cemil Batur Gökçeer creates photographs where questions such as who, where remain unanswered but one that allows a multi-layered and transitional perception. Thin Air is an exhibition project conceived in 3 parts and exhibitions; in which the archive of these photographs will form its own narrative, spanning from past to the present
