https://barancaginli.com barancaginli.com Thu, 22 Jan 2026 18:27:49 +0000 https://barancaginli.com en https://barancaginli.com/Lost-and-Found Thu, 22 Jan 2026 18:27:49 +0000 barancaginli.com https://barancaginli.com/Lost-and-Found Lost and Found 2025, baked bread,ceramic molds,storage shelves,photos, archival postcards &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <img width="5760" height="3840" width_o="5760" height_o="3840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/739e02d22c0285737d57a835a9b5055875d92018ccfff684f0bbd097016fe42b/PA2B9952.JPG" data-mid="243828378" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/739e02d22c0285737d57a835a9b5055875d92018ccfff684f0bbd097016fe42b/PA2B9952.JPG" />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Lost and Found, detail, baked bread in the form of Mikhail Kalinin monument’s handThe exhibition 'Lost and Found' explores the intersections of materiality and memory through a series of edible bread sculptures that trace the stories of dissected and lost monuments from Estonia, Lithuania, Romania, and Moldova. Using temporary material, bread to reflect on socio-political and cultural histories, the project aims to delve into instances of civil political action involving the subversion of political posture by stealing small parts of the monuments, such as fingers or hands. The missing parts of the monuments were recreated using photogrammetry and 3D scanning from old photographs and postcards, and ceramic moulds were created. During the exhibition, visitors are invited to participate in a ceremonial act by consuming these reproduced, edible fragments, choosing to eat, share, or keep them like relics. The exhibition took place at the Oksasenkatu 11 gallery in Helsinki from 5 December 2025 to 2 January 2026. The project supported by TAIKE, Otto A. Malm Foundation and Tranzit.org/iasi. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<img width="5760" height="3840" width_o="5760" height_o="3840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7e35ea6f6ba0b975d2de25b89813cffcbc25a363fb8fb513c7b096ac5772b3de/PA2B9940.JPG" data-mid="243828377" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7e35ea6f6ba0b975d2de25b89813cffcbc25a363fb8fb513c7b096ac5772b3de/PA2B9940.JPG" />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Lost and Found, detail, baked bread in the form of Lenin monument’s nose <img width="5760" height="3840" width_o="5760" height_o="3840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/616704c8cd74f00e72b17d06cd075b50272f22e1a1144220d7c2e4e75e6ce0d4/PA2B9958.JPG" data-mid="243828442" border="0" 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exhibition view from Oksasenkatu 11 gallery, Helsinki 2025 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; https://barancaginli.com/Starry-Night Mon, 21 Jul 2025 09:03:23 +0000 barancaginli.com https://barancaginli.com/Starry-Night Starry Night&nbsp; 2025, 240x120 cm, 1500 bullet casings on wood <img width="4972" height="2760" width_o="4972" height_o="2760" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e0e39b25f234e62a2927763ca48fd8b65900b512b222660d22858b4a20fa070e/1.JPG" data-mid="236068403" border="0" data-scale="85" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e0e39b25f234e62a2927763ca48fd8b65900b512b222660d22858b4a20fa070e/1.JPG" />Starry Night, exhibition view from Stoa Gallery, Helsinki 2025 The Starry Night is an iconic oil painting by Vincent van Gogh, painted in June 1889. It depicts the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, just before sunrise, with the addition of an imaginary village. Van Gogh's starry night is reproduced by interpreting it with a photograph taken during the war in Gaza by using bullet casing. Each bullet casing is hammered, flattened and cut to mimic Van Gogh's expressive brushstrokes. The swirling night sky, rendered in metallic fragments, refers to the flares fired by the Israeli army that illuminate the sky instead of the stars and moon. If Van Gogh were looking out of an east-facing window today, this might be the view he would see. <img width="1280" height="770" width_o="1280" height_o="770" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/521415799aa60c63638abdf6dc4e96ebf3c14163c1a5eeb87313e053719293e9/27712bc0-ac20-472a-a7c6-f9c95ae7302d.jpg" data-mid="236068405" border="0" data-scale="84" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/521415799aa60c63638abdf6dc4e96ebf3c14163c1a5eeb87313e053719293e9/27712bc0-ac20-472a-a7c6-f9c95ae7302d.jpg" /> Flares fired by the Israeli army illuminate the sky over Al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza on November 6.&nbsp;Ali Jadallah/Anadolu <img width="5672" height="3781" width_o="5672" height_o="3781" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/341478f66b68828dd960e8df9e9f2a12c8f5e3b87b20db699f3a13faeb04999e/2.JPG" data-mid="236068404" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/341478f66b68828dd960e8df9e9f2a12c8f5e3b87b20db699f3a13faeb04999e/2.JPG" /> Starry Night, detail https://barancaginli.com/Baking-Books Thu, 28 Sep 2023 17:17:02 +0000 barancaginli.com https://barancaginli.com/Baking-Books Baking Books 2023,Baked bread, ceramic moulds,&nbsp;leaflet <img width="5760" height="3840" width_o="5760" height_o="3840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5757cbc6685a3d2146be067ae5b5e4c89dca753d5e2f73e29bb1c39d7e96484c/PA2B4499.JPG" data-mid="192159484" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5757cbc6685a3d2146be067ae5b5e4c89dca753d5e2f73e29bb1c39d7e96484c/PA2B4499.JPG" />On September 12, 1980, the Turkish Armed Forces carried out the third successful military coup in the history of the Republic of Turkey. The Parliament and the Government were dissolved. The immunities of the members of the parliament were revoked. Political party activities were banned. Party and union buildings and facilities were confiscated by the martial law and garrison commandership. Immediately after the Coup d’État, thousands of people were abruptly taken into custody from their homes and brought to police stations, public buildings, private estates and facilities that would from then on be used as places of torture. Following the 1980 Coup d’État, grave violations of human rights continued in a widespread and systematic manner in Turkey. Tortures, enforced disappearances, extrajudicial/arbitrary executions, sexual violence, and death sentences that became the practices of the period were committed.As a high school student in Istanbul, my father was a member of a leftist youth organization. The military police imprisoned and tortured him because of his involvement in political actions. When my grandfather heard about his son’s incarceration, he travelled from a village near Kars, a city in the Kurdish region, to Istanbul to bring his son home. My father took with him his library of forbidden Marxist-Leninist books. These were unknown to my grandfather. He was illiterate and saw no harm in taking the books with them, which he thought were school books. On their arrival someone from the village warned my grandfather about the books: They were prohibited literature and if found, everyone in the house would get arrested! To solve the situation, my grandparents decided to burn them in their fireplace. But the quantity of the books was so large that the constant fire made some people in the village suspect that something unusual was going on. To obscure their actions my grandmother started to bake bread continuously for a week and gave it out for free to the whole village. I baked bread in the form of Lenin, Marx and Rosa Luxemburg in memory of my father’s burned books. The bread shared among the visitors in the exhibition space. <img width="5760" height="3840" width_o="5760" height_o="3840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/478edcee24dd170795c8ee3473943d0d5a4bd3c38d418051311af8f8a068f728/PA2B4512.JPG" data-mid="192159488" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/478edcee24dd170795c8ee3473943d0d5a4bd3c38d418051311af8f8a068f728/PA2B4512.JPG" /> <img width="5760" height="3840" width_o="5760" height_o="3840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/715dfcc35f0b969e6f5f1c66f3de29c7fd8140157fde908eb9f7f48e3b9eae22/PA2B4500.JPG" data-mid="192159485" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/715dfcc35f0b969e6f5f1c66f3de29c7fd8140157fde908eb9f7f48e3b9eae22/PA2B4500.JPG" /> <img width="5760" height="3840" width_o="5760" height_o="3840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/07926086ed3b622933fa73915f341e69f2287ac21607ee15ee940c894cb6ee8c/PA2B4496.JPG" data-mid="192159482" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/07926086ed3b622933fa73915f341e69f2287ac21607ee15ee940c894cb6ee8c/PA2B4496.JPG" /> https://barancaginli.com/Expressions Thu, 16 Sep 2021 19:17:50 +0000 barancaginli.com https://barancaginli.com/Expressions Expressions2021,Neon sign The work is based on a famous phrase from the movie The Wizard of Oz(1939). After a tornado transports her to a strange place, the main character Dorothy utters the words ‘’There is no place like home’’ three times in order to return to her farm in Kansas. The neon sign in Caginli’s work breaks up the sentence into amputated forms – ‘’There is no home’’ and ‘’No place home’’ – as a reference to refugees who are forced to leave their homeland due to war and other crises. It evokes both the longing to return and the changed circumstances that refugees might face if allowed to return: ‘home’ would no longer be the same, it might be destroyed, loved ones vanished, and they themselves might be permanently scarred by traumatizing experiences. Commissioned by HAM/Helsinki Biennial 2021 <img width="5350" height="3567" width_o="5350" height_o="3567" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/604e517eef7e82fbf5be0aaf19e0faabccec8ae925027974b359d57c5b684e04/HB_21_Caginli_Luotsitalo-2.jpg" data-mid="119117712" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/604e517eef7e82fbf5be0aaf19e0faabccec8ae925027974b359d57c5b684e04/HB_21_Caginli_Luotsitalo-2.jpg" /> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Expressions, 2021 ©Maija Toivanen/HAM/Helsinki Biennial 2021 https://barancaginli.com/Carbon-as-a-Political-Molecule Thu, 16 Sep 2021 18:15:58 +0000 barancaginli.com https://barancaginli.com/Carbon-as-a-Political-Molecule Carbon a s a Political Molecule2021,Fabric and found footage archive The work consist of a world map patched together from camouflage patterns used by armies around the world. Each pattern is designed to blend with the local climate, vegetation and seasons. The piece is a commentary on enviromental disasters, 34% of which are caused by war, reports the UN. The work points out that militarism and the arms industry are instrument of capitalism. Their climat impacts and human losses affect everyone globally; their adverse effects are transboundary, making us all victims of war, if indirectly. Commissioned by HAM/Helsinki Biennial 2021&nbsp; <img width="5760" height="3840" width_o="5760" height_o="3840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7c2881452ed715fe6209fee554f006bfb7b7fc7d1e9adceab924d041d79c948f/Carbon-as-a-Political-Moleculeexhibition_view_1.jpg" data-mid="119110817" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7c2881452ed715fe6209fee554f006bfb7b7fc7d1e9adceab924d041d79c948f/Carbon-as-a-Political-Moleculeexhibition_view_1.jpg" />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Carbon as a Political Molecule,Exhibition view,HAM/Helsinki Biennial 2021 <img width="7706" height="5037" width_o="7706" height_o="5037" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/125912a03379a540ccbba9600215018077567b09941f9d68f299cf878eb9c741/Carbon-as-a-Political-Molecule_exhibition_view2.jpg" data-mid="119110816" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/125912a03379a540ccbba9600215018077567b09941f9d68f299cf878eb9c741/Carbon-as-a-Political-Molecule_exhibition_view2.jpg" /> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Carbon as a Political Molecule,Exhibition view ©Maija Toivanen/HAM/Helsinki Biennial 2021 <img width="5493" height="3743" width_o="5493" height_o="3743" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/676fd79ee3e94ec9f59ea0b0e38797068598046bbc0ae1c21e8f9c9043c40aef/Carbon-as-a-Political-Molecule_detail_1.jpg" data-mid="119110798" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/676fd79ee3e94ec9f59ea0b0e38797068598046bbc0ae1c21e8f9c9043c40aef/Carbon-as-a-Political-Molecule_detail_1.jpg" /> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Carbon as a Political Molecule,detail,HAM/Helsinki Biennial 2021 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <img width="984" height="1512" width_o="984" height_o="1512" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/917ddd488cfd963f262efafef65fbd63315b462d2d5a25017071838d70698774/propaganda_leaflet-american_japan-back.jpg" data-mid="119114069" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/984/i/917ddd488cfd963f262efafef65fbd63315b462d2d5a25017071838d70698774/propaganda_leaflet-american_japan-back.jpg" /> <img width="2918" height="4538" width_o="2918" height_o="4538" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ea0682f465880ab4b1f8334a897440becc69ed0aff83e187181e2e9441914022/propaganda_leaflet-american_japan-front.jpg" data-mid="119114067" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ea0682f465880ab4b1f8334a897440becc69ed0aff83e187181e2e9441914022/propaganda_leaflet-american_japan-front.jpg" /> <img width="2200" height="2302" width_o="2200" height_o="2302" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/462eef677d212d01e6092dfb4678e9b174e9c7bbf845421be9f2e586703a0b99/leaflet-1.jpg" data-mid="119114640" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/462eef677d212d01e6092dfb4678e9b174e9c7bbf845421be9f2e586703a0b99/leaflet-1.jpg" /> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Carbon as a Political Molecule,detail from found footage archive https://barancaginli.com/Unable-to-recognize-fingerprint Thu, 16 Sep 2021 19:45:32 +0000 barancaginli.com https://barancaginli.com/Unable-to-recognize-fingerprint Unable to recognize fingerprint&nbsp; 2020, 100x130cm, sanded European map by hand The EU asylum process is governed by the Dublin Regulation, which requires people to apply for protection in the first country they enter. Most of the refugees don’t want to examine their asylum applications in those first countries such as Greece, Italy, Spain, etc. because of the countries’ refugee policies, camp conditions and economical situations. For this reason, refugees trying to move and seek asylum in second or third countries rather than first countries. Since 2003, the European Union is using EURODAC system ​(European Dactyloscopy) to control irregular border-crossers between European Union countries and identifying asylum seekers via their fingerprints. With Eurodac, refugees cannot seek asylum in any country other than the country from which they entered Europe and were first gave fingerprints. Many of them stuck in refugee camps like a prison with terrible conditions. Refugees started to erase their fingerprints with sandpaper, acid, or using a knife, razor and mutilate the fingerprints so as not to be identified with the Eurodac system. In the work, European map sanded by an artist, only using hands. As a result, European countries and the borders erased and became undefinable, and same time artist whose fingerprints erased has became unidentifiable, like refugees who erase their identity to survive.The work was produced as part of the project Conditions of Peace <img width="5472" height="3648" width_o="5472" height_o="3648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/89019bbf98edcd8d3c1ec95ed13f9664c195499fad7d5fba4e9c4aba12cf8621/Unable-to-recognize-fingerprint_Baran-Caginli.jpg" data-mid="119120742" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/89019bbf98edcd8d3c1ec95ed13f9664c195499fad7d5fba4e9c4aba12cf8621/Unable-to-recognize-fingerprint_Baran-Caginli.jpg" /> https://barancaginli.com/Untitle Wed, 09 Sep 2020 10:21:32 +0000 barancaginli.com https://barancaginli.com/Untitle Untitle 2020,8 laser cut photographic prints on aluminum Untitle is a photo series of various satellite views locations in Turkey, Spain, Italy, Poland, France, USA. These locations are used as military bases, state buildings and unknown facilities. The censoring creates a new aesthetic where architecture, environmental planning, vegetation blur together. The prints are cut to the censored area’s shape. <img width="5760" height="3840" width_o="5760" height_o="3840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4b17dfe23c2727ce3c6c7dacebe60549ab97d1c3638efd10eba51bc7e5bebeb8/2.JPG" data-mid="82204678" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4b17dfe23c2727ce3c6c7dacebe60549ab97d1c3638efd10eba51bc7e5bebeb8/2.JPG" /> <img width="3973" height="3303" width_o="3973" height_o="3303" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d37681625dc77ea892b2809b4bcf0536c0ed446e3b6fe8bc69d2920a8c27b2c6/1.JPG" data-mid="82204677" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d37681625dc77ea892b2809b4bcf0536c0ed446e3b6fe8bc69d2920a8c27b2c6/1.JPG" /> <img width="4000" height="3000" width_o="4000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b5cba7f15d0c07d1b35637084e7c119102fdbac9696bbb3ea4cba1006b157b43/7.jpg" data-mid="82204683" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b5cba7f15d0c07d1b35637084e7c119102fdbac9696bbb3ea4cba1006b157b43/7.jpg" /> <img width="5760" height="3840" width_o="5760" height_o="3840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/64b79e22574bae6d9473b4b0d1f1511ae3359544a911c6913ba21c980fc6ca9f/5.JPG" data-mid="82204681" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/64b79e22574bae6d9473b4b0d1f1511ae3359544a911c6913ba21c980fc6ca9f/5.JPG" /> <img width="2976" height="2137" width_o="2976" height_o="2137" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6cd69efdc69672305d5bca801b22069acae68f2fe1cb4c41a2237c404b837664/8.jpg" data-mid="82205339" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6cd69efdc69672305d5bca801b22069acae68f2fe1cb4c41a2237c404b837664/8.jpg" /> <img width="4555" height="2656" width_o="4555" height_o="2656" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4defea5606c092b53968f26ad6d4c1ec31dac940a1ee05c5c56696782ab18f76/8-1.JPG" data-mid="82205350" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4defea5606c092b53968f26ad6d4c1ec31dac940a1ee05c5c56696782ab18f76/8-1.JPG" /> <img width="5760" height="3840" width_o="5760" height_o="3840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/89bc185e5facbf95165f4c4c49db64d65edf803f62e2682e7790da5a11f0cc24/4.JPG" data-mid="82204680" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/89bc185e5facbf95165f4c4c49db64d65edf803f62e2682e7790da5a11f0cc24/4.JPG" /> <img width="5760" height="3840" width_o="5760" height_o="3840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/44f41c429ab371731f1fdc59d649a08b953376457d4457ed570b910be19918d0/3.JPG" data-mid="82204679" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/44f41c429ab371731f1fdc59d649a08b953376457d4457ed570b910be19918d0/3.JPG" /> <img width="5593" height="3631" width_o="5593" height_o="3631" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b7825bc91ae90e301b92e23a6cba0efb16ec5bef0d5ce40055f05bfb76039385/exhibition-view.JPG" data-mid="82205822" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b7825bc91ae90e301b92e23a6cba0efb16ec5bef0d5ce40055f05bfb76039385/exhibition-view.JPG" /> https://barancaginli.com/Blackout Wed, 09 Sep 2020 08:59:29 +0000 barancaginli.com https://barancaginli.com/Blackout <img width="5906" height="8268" width_o="5906" height_o="8268" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/35b6b27f1089dcd6e2a997b588d2bc182f9bf38bb0819e58be0f9489b4b26df1/baran_blackout_poster.jpg" data-mid="82193791" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/35b6b27f1089dcd6e2a997b588d2bc182f9bf38bb0819e58be0f9489b4b26df1/baran_blackout_poster.jpg" /> BLACKOUT * The Oxford English Dictionary defines ‘off the map’ as a description of something ‘out of existence... an insignificant position; of no account; obsolete’. This plays on the usual and common-sense understanding of maps: that they show what exists and that they do so accurately. Maps are generally perceived to be an accurate mirror or graphic representation of some aspect of the real world; cartography is defined as a factual science. But as a wealth of research within the ‘new geography’ has argued at length, the map is an intensely political object (Mark Neocleous, 2003, European Journal of Social Theory ). Nowadays, the maps are easy to reach via online mapping services. Because they are so easy to access, cartographic censorship becomes a priority for the states. On states’ request, these online platforms ‘blackout’ specific, strategic places such as military bases, power plants, specific geographical formations. Even refugee camps, languages, cultures are blackout as a construction of colonial space, and exercise of imperial violence. As a form of knowledge, maps have therefore been brought under the veil of secrecy which shrouds the modern state (Neocleous, 2003). 'Blackout' dwells on cartographic censorship with pixelated, blurred and transformed images of the places and people which are created by states and nonexistent for us. * Blackout, 27.08 – 13.09.2020,&nbsp; MAA-tila Project Space, HelsinkiThe exhibition has been supported by Taike Arts promotion centre Finland www.maatilaprojectspace.fi/ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <img width="2480" height="1748" width_o="2480" height_o="1748" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cf57a9e510d8385642635c62ee75394a5b654898d5a75c950463c115d9473310/p3.jpg" data-mid="82194130" border="0" alt="Vacation in Greece" data-caption="Vacation in Greece" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cf57a9e510d8385642635c62ee75394a5b654898d5a75c950463c115d9473310/p3.jpg" /> <img width="5760" height="3840" width_o="5760" height_o="3840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d77b26d6c94b392b140c84f58f154db9e95cfa597ea9e196d3327b12e4352586/BRN_3533.JPG" data-mid="82194151" border="0" alt="No street names in Palestine" data-caption="No street names in Palestine" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d77b26d6c94b392b140c84f58f154db9e95cfa597ea9e196d3327b12e4352586/BRN_3533.JPG" /> <img width="5760" height="3840" width_o="5760" height_o="3840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4b17dfe23c2727ce3c6c7dacebe60549ab97d1c3638efd10eba51bc7e5bebeb8/2.JPG" data-mid="82205398" border="0" alt="Untitle" data-caption="Untitle" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4b17dfe23c2727ce3c6c7dacebe60549ab97d1c3638efd10eba51bc7e5bebeb8/2.JPG" /> https://barancaginli.com/No-street-names-in-Palestine Tue, 08 Sep 2020 21:12:01 +0000 barancaginli.com https://barancaginli.com/No-street-names-in-Palestine No street names in Palestine 2020, Cement, 125x105x11 cm No street names in Palestine is a sculpture work about ‘invisible’&nbsp; Palestine geography by cartographic censorship.&nbsp; 95% of Palestinian streets, unnamed, non-places, are invisible in online maps, except the streets where Israeli settlers live. Israel limits the entry of basic essentials including water, fuel and building materials to Gaza. After Israel bombardments, Palestinians try to rebuild the city. The Israel government has repeatedly banned the importing of cement, which is monopolized and sold by Israeli cement companies who procure cement for separation wall, checkpoints and to occupant settlers' constructions. With these blockages, it has become impossible to rebuild Palestine. In 2012 the UN warned that the Palestinian coastal enclave would become “uninhabitable” by 2020 as a result of the restrictions. The sculpture work is made of cement. The outlines of the West Bank and Gaza are filled with cement dust, bearing the mark of a bulldozer track which Israeli settlers are using for destroying local’s homes. This mark is creating ‘new topography’ of the country and at the same time trampling the language and the people. <img width="3836" height="5004" width_o="3836" height_o="5004" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7ebde8abe1f9bd5825446d755a12010b0e06e0c4e66b929e0307f398b83dd698/BRN_3535.JPG" data-mid="82145483" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7ebde8abe1f9bd5825446d755a12010b0e06e0c4e66b929e0307f398b83dd698/BRN_3535.JPG" /> <img width="5537" height="3691" width_o="5537" height_o="3691" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c1e086220e6ea53b8a1b492c6d3bb829aca734399bf7407f3fc6a0185bbe5eb2/BRN_3527.JPG" data-mid="82145479" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c1e086220e6ea53b8a1b492c6d3bb829aca734399bf7407f3fc6a0185bbe5eb2/BRN_3527.JPG" /> <img width="5760" height="3840" width_o="5760" height_o="3840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/88bdea4dacb0790cb27ea92c67dad730baab7f1d5958079e08f46561bedc17eb/BRN_3607.JPG" data-mid="82145486" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/88bdea4dacb0790cb27ea92c67dad730baab7f1d5958079e08f46561bedc17eb/BRN_3607.JPG" /> https://barancaginli.com/Vacation-in-Greece Tue, 08 Sep 2020 18:36:35 +0000 barancaginli.com https://barancaginli.com/Vacation-in-Greece &nbsp; &nbsp; Vacation in Greece &nbsp; 2020, &nbsp; 3D print, 100x54x7 cm&nbsp; Digital prints, 14x21 cm each Vacation in Greece refers to cartographic censorship in the Aegean Sea with sculpture work and photos from satellite views. Greece has a huge amount of censored areas in online maps, such as military zones, refugee camps and civil airports. These are usually blurred or pixelated in two dimensions, however, Cephalonia International Airport is censored in three dimensions. The sculpture is a 3D printed model of the Cephalonia airport created via photogrammetry with 6000 satellite images. &nbsp; <img width="5581" height="3721" width_o="5581" height_o="3721" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/05a8b5bfc7f6d50c558181f93e9c1a16872bf9087f862199be52b36e5fee0410/Vacation_in_Greece_4.JPG" data-mid="82132300" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/05a8b5bfc7f6d50c558181f93e9c1a16872bf9087f862199be52b36e5fee0410/Vacation_in_Greece_4.JPG" /> <img width="5455" height="3637" width_o="5455" height_o="3637" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/015de0795d1e72b92258c0c6ef836a047f69e91c7a2d3884700dac1bb9376eb4/Vacation_in_Greece_2.JPG" data-mid="82132211" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/015de0795d1e72b92258c0c6ef836a047f69e91c7a2d3884700dac1bb9376eb4/Vacation_in_Greece_2.JPG" /> <img width="5760" height="3840" width_o="5760" height_o="3840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b893cd37e1ba645e5fded7936419957f7a1b09e785b32ccd2c60b039df036253/Vacation_in_Greece_1.JPG" data-mid="82132161" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b893cd37e1ba645e5fded7936419957f7a1b09e785b32ccd2c60b039df036253/Vacation_in_Greece_1.JPG" /> <img width="5613" height="3743" width_o="5613" height_o="3743" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b7fc45e9368e72ebac01675bd4bff016bb011e4f2785acf22cb9e5e915453c6e/Vacation_in_Greece_3.JPG" data-mid="82131405" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b7fc45e9368e72ebac01675bd4bff016bb011e4f2785acf22cb9e5e915453c6e/Vacation_in_Greece_3.JPG" /> In the photo series, the sea is pixelated around the islands in online maps. The Greek state censored the continental shelf, in particular areas in Aegean Sea, like in those photos. The reason for the censorship is a backward-looking problem between Greece and Turkey: they both lay a claim on maritime boundaries defined by the continental shelf. In 1973, Greece claimed ownership of mineral rights in the continental shelf extending from beneath all its islands in the Aegean. Turkey proposed that the continental shelf be divided through negotiations. In March 1987, a decision of the Greek government to nationalize the consortium of companies that were drilling oil off Thasos (island in Aegean dispute), and planned exploratory oil drilling 11 miles east of the island of Thasos, such as the impression by Turkey that Greece was planning new researches for oil, provoked tension between the two countries. The crisis escalated, armed forces of both countries were on alert, and both sides said they would use force if obstructed by the other. The incident nearly started a war between Greece and Turkey.[1] [1] New York Times. March 28-29, 1987 <img width="2480" height="1748" width_o="2480" height_o="1748" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6ba102085a92d1d4b7e674ef18e10f36c92f67a9837ea7363d175269d5cf389f/p4.jpg" data-mid="82128561" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6ba102085a92d1d4b7e674ef18e10f36c92f67a9837ea7363d175269d5cf389f/p4.jpg" /> <img width="2480" height="1748" width_o="2480" height_o="1748" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cf57a9e510d8385642635c62ee75394a5b654898d5a75c950463c115d9473310/p3.jpg" data-mid="82128497" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cf57a9e510d8385642635c62ee75394a5b654898d5a75c950463c115d9473310/p3.jpg" /> <img width="2480" height="1748" width_o="2480" height_o="1748" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/32ad98a8792a18ccd35b0af9bef8250867aeb115008030f19d3b754667e93bbe/p2.jpg" data-mid="82128565" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/32ad98a8792a18ccd35b0af9bef8250867aeb115008030f19d3b754667e93bbe/p2.jpg" /> <img width="2480" height="1748" width_o="2480" height_o="1748" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ecc613d1ab67782f2cdd273da29f7e3008713074a46009645e727af516282699/p1.jpg" data-mid="82128569" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ecc613d1ab67782f2cdd273da29f7e3008713074a46009645e727af516282699/p1.jpg" />