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Time-Space/Ahmet Elhan Photographic installation 26.12.1998> 24.1.1999

Time/space is a sight-specific photographic installation questioning the 'real' which will only be meaningful within this exhibition space. The work dealing with the relationship between the 'real' and two dimensional image, points out the possibilities of expansion and constriction of the two fundamental principles of perception of the 'real', time and space, on the level of two dimensional imagery. During the process of creating the work, the first images created by photographing the empty walls are hung on the opposite walls and then, rephotographed. The outcome of this is the displaying of the both states of the walls- empty and with photographs- in the exhibition space. Through this, the state a space is in different period of time are brought together and superimposed which opens the doors to a new 'reality'. The 3 walls of the space inspiring the piece also determines the three parts of it. The work based on painting, photography and digital imaging techniques, is completed with the walls, canvas and hangers. In the process of creation of the two dimensional image, the dimensions of time and space freeze and fall outside the frame. This is exactly the point which this work is concerned with. The space where the installation takes place creates a passage way, determined by what the frame captures, and what falls outside of it, where a constant attraction-repulsion and shifting occurs. -This space belongs to neither order, nor chaos. Its borders can neither be drawn by reality, nor lies. -This is why the two dimensional images existing in this passage way, worships the real while at the same time denying it. It is a slave to lies while at the same time condemning it. -And time/space go back and forth from existing to being cut off, from disconnection to flowing.

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