SEMA BOYANCI

6 EXTERIOR SPACE: ANKARA Altındağ, Yenidoğan, Çin Çin, Sincan, Mamak, Pursaklar, Kalecik, Demetevler... İSTANBULAlibeyköy, Gültepe, Gaziosmanpaşa, Bağcılar, Gazi, Ümraniye, Sultangazi, Sultan çiftliği, Kuştepe, Gazlıçeşme, Hacıhüsrev, Tarbabaşı, Dolapdere... İZMİR Kadifekale, Basmane, Tepecik... ADANA Yüreğir, 19 Mayıs... ANTALYA Zeytinköy... ESKİŞEHİR Kuyubaşı... AFKONKARAHİSAR Çavuşbaşı... KONYA Doğanlar, Muhacir... SAMSUN Çarşamba... TRABZON Çömlekçi... MERSİN Çilek Mahallesi etc... INTERIOR SPACE 1: A neighborhood coffeehouse complementing the antiquated, rundown shantytown homes surrounding it: packed with aimless, hopeless, particularly clamorous commoners as though they’ve been duplicated through a sort of “copy paste” from scenes of a village coffeehouse, shifting in slowed movements, seated on low, wooden chairs… On the walls of the coffeehouse a poster of the Beşiktaş football team… immediately next to it, photographs of groups of two and three footballers from the neighborhood team… images of neighborhood youth from their time serving in the military in unknown Anatolian villages reached through curving mountain roads and rolling creeks… portraits of servicemen martyred, encircled by Turkish flags… A hand- made, wooden walking cane… hand-knitted wool gloves… an embroidered handkerchief… a green amulet attached to the tip of a braided rope… an empty gelincik cigarette box with something written on it. INTERIOR SPACE 2: A tiny, makeshift meatball shop wedged in an alley: on its walls, a pitchfork, a hayfork, a woven saddlebag, a sickle and glove, images of a mountain, a river, a thresher, an ox with a yoke, a villager on the back of a donkey, and small black and white headshot photos, tables set on the edges of streams and photographs of groups of people seated around them… INTERIOR SPACE 3: A narrow barber shop… a barber’s chair, a decorated cushion placed on it, a towel thrown on the barber’s shoulder, his mirror trimmed with lace coverings… On the mirror several token photos of people embracing each other around the shoulder…a fancy fountain pen, a string of prayer beads, a bunch of small address notes, etc.. - as if... “aesthetics & instinct”