"ANONYMOUS MEMORY,,
Stamps, photographs and other documents which belong to letters of an unknown sender and journey; to abandoned memories... Constantly flowing time, the place in which we are the guests, consistently changing and developing cities/our culture… Effort, dream, experience and story of the individual will apart from the modernist methodology in the layers of history… The truth of memory which is now turning into a nostalgia begins to be wiped up… Abandoned memories and the threat (!/?) to
which their archeology is exposed. Anonymous Memory with a secondary ownership and a concern on showing and reminding begins the process of search and production of photographs, letters/stamps and other documents expressing unknown individual/social memory in second-hand book sellers.
“Anonymous Archives” exhibited with secondary ownership, elements abondoned and included in the reproduction process find themselves a place on the canvas with layers and take place in the flow of history by preserving their own reality in terms of factual/phenomenological archeology and by being included in the time flow in the field of art. This approach also questions the view and the possibility of the methods of the view to the archeology of recent history in terms of contemporary art practice. Elements carrying materially and morally priceless feelings and experience included in the production process are transformed into a new value with artistic practice.
Haydar Akdağ
"ANONYMOUS MEMORY,,
On Postcard Installation;
Anonymous Memory does not only focus on memory and reminder of the individual but also reminds the parts of the representation of the collective memory which are cities, city squares, public space and public memory and the destruction to which the sociological and political memory of the era is exposed. Wiping silhouettes of city squares are not only architectural elements representing an era. They can not be evaluated only by their technical/objective existence. Political and social awareness established loudly in culture/art spaces and gained a seat in the public memory with the political reality and practice represented by an era is under threat today. Everyone has a memory which they want to preserve. Representations or reminders which belong to one’s life consciousness are the
sources of this memory. Darkness falling into the time like a black curtain, our concerns triggered by this darkness by repressing ourselves in daily living practices are social/psychological/political situation which aims to make us put the privacy of our memory behind or even forget it. “Anonymous Memory” Installation which plasticizes the memory of humanity facing this situation meets audience and thinker.
